Spade to banana adapters


Does anyone know a source for spade to banana (female) adapters to use on a binding post? I searched all the usual places and found spade (or bare wire) to male banana adapters for using on the end of speaker cable. But that is not what I need. I want to use two pair of speaker cables (with banana termination) on an amplifier with only one pair of binding posts.

NO, I do not want to insert one banana into the bare wire hole and crush the hollow banana.

Thank you.
don_s

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Bdgregory, Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

I know adapters are not the best solution and there may be some degradation but it is a cheap experiment since I already have two identical pairs of very good speaker cables. Bless Parts Express for providing the option of economical U.S. Postal Service shipment for small items.

Now I can experiment to see if the addition of a second set of speaker cables offsets any negative from the adapters. As a plus, I get to lose the jumpers at the speaker end. Kind of a trade off. Adapters at the amp end replace jumpers at the speaker end.

I am still open to other options if anyone knows about other adapters.

Kgturner, Those look serious. I will keep them in mind.

Sugarbrie, Yea, tell me about it. I just had three other amps modified including removing the Eurotrash binding posts that would not hold a spade. No matter how much I tightened them if I bumped a wire it acted like a lever and loosened the connection. A couple of times the spade popped completely out. Talk about "safety". That was with smaller spades. Large ones would not even fit. They are one of the reasons I went bananas--literally.