What's the biggest spade you can buy?


Looking to use spades as terminations on a set of speaker cables. On the amp end - MF NuVista 300 - the binding posts are 14mm in diameter! Can I get a spade to slide snugly onto a post that size or will I have to use bare wire or a banana?
flyinglion2000

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Bare wire best? I have two concerns:

1.) Frightened that one rogue strand will make its way out to the other terminal. How can this be prevented, other than using one solid core wire? (I prefer stranded.)

2.) Seems to me that cranking down on a flat, symmetric surface (spade) can be made easier and more secure (therefore better electrical contact) than a round nonsymmetric shape (wire).

I don't know, perhaps these concerns are not valid. Prcinka or anyone?