I replaced banana with spades on my multi individual strand cable. I bought Audioquest spades but standard crimper did poor job. I borrowed Audioquest crimper (almost identical) from the local Audio store and it worked perfect. After crimping I soldered it heating wires first to prevent thermal expansion of the spade (to keep zero oxygen connection). I know, many purists are against using third material (solder), but connection, even if not 100%, is so tight that solder doesn't matter (electrically). If you "suck at terminating cables", then better send it to professionals - it is one time expense.