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Tuff question= Banana plug to adapt to Spade ?

My Pass 350.5 Amp only can accept spades.

There is a set of used speaker cables that I would like to purchase but they have banana's on all ends.
I know there are many adaptors that can adapt the other way, but I dont recall every seeing the adaptor the way I have descibed.
Without resorting to re-termination , is there any type of adaptor that can adapt the speaker cable banana ends to fit in my Amps spade ?
I am serious, Please no bananna jokes! Well maybe a few , but only if I get my answer.
ozzy

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nsgarch
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I use these attractive and reasonably priced PSAudio spade>>banana adaptors:
http://www.psaudio.com/products/spadetobananaadapter.asp
along with the gold "forks" to attach the fat Purist speaker cable spades to my old-fashioned McIntosh barrier strip:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=102809
Everything is gold plated, and the PSAudio bananas are heavy duty spring-loaded, perfect for someone (me?) who might obsess over sliding connections ;-)
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nsgarch
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Ozzy -- if I assume the rest of your system is the same caliber as your amplifier (can I do that?) then I suggest you to "do it right" and have your speaker cables re-terminated. Even if you solder spades onto the bananas, you are creating a Rube Goldberg conglomeration of sound-degrading electrical interfaces -- and for what?

In fact, have spades installed on both ends if your speakers accept them too, because bananas (unless the locking kind, and not just a "push" connection) are an inferior connection IMO.
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