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If i have to "mate" my speaker cable with a 1/4" spade that fits in one of the old crew-in speaker strips on an amp, what/where is the 1/4" inch. The inside (hole)/outside width of the spade? I am not that clever and i live in the EU so I need to translate this into mm. 1/4 inch is the max size spade the amp will take (Quicksilver mini)
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The screw terminals on the Mini-Mite appear to be good ol' phenolic board #6 screw terminals in which case the 1/4" would be the full width of the spade. So what you want is a spade for a #6 screw, which will equate to an M3.5.
se
Apparently, there's not enough room inside for regular binding post. According to mike Saunders 1/4" is the max size. Isn't that sort of tiny?
Apparently, there's not enough room inside for regular binding post. According to mike Saunders 1/4" is the max size. Isn't that sort of tiny?
Yeah, compared to what's usually used on "high-end" gear, they're definitely tiny. Personally I quite like them.
Anyway, I found these on Farnell's Dutch website:
http://tinyurl.com/2jvft6
And if your speaker cables won't be very long and you don't mind entertaining the idea of going with something a bit out of the ordinary, this might interest you:
These are made by an old guy I know down in Texas who makes reproduction cords and cordage for vintage Western Electric telephones. And although he caters to the antique telephone market, Western Electric used these very same cords for such things as their radio speakers back in the early 20th century.
The spades are the perfect size for the screw terminals on the little Quicksilver and if your speakers take banana plugs, Panduit (as well as a few others) makes some nice spade to banana adapters.
I've actually used these cables before and they sound very good as long as you keep the length bellow a couple meters.
se
Steve, thanks for the hard work. The dutch is actually danish, a language I speak. I wasn't aware of this company in Denmark.
One thought I had was to gently crimp some small spades on my bananas? Have you any experience with this?
That cord is wild!
"One thought I had was to gently crimp some small spades on my bananas?"
So, now you are considering no less than three mechanical connections. Wire to banana...banana to spade...spade to amp terminal. Every one of those susceptible to oxidation, loosening and other failures.
Why not cut that down to one. Just screw the wire directly to the amp terminal, where the spade would go. There's no reason to put connectors in the way, unless it's to make it easier for girls to plug and unplug the speakers. Connectors are just for convenience and prettiness. They add resistance and decrease performance.
/// Speakers should all come with captive speaker wire included.
Steve, thanks for the hard work. The dutch is actually danish, a language I speak.
D'oh! I meant Danish, not Dutch. Sorry.
One thought I had was to gently crimp some small spades on my bananas? Have you any experience with this?
Not something I've done before. Don't think it'd be too good a solution even if you were able to crimp it on. Perhaps a better solution would be to get some banana jacks, a small project box, and some short runs of wire terminated on one end with spades and the other connected to the bananas in the project box.
Or just eliminate the project box and cover the ends of the banana jacks with some heatshrink.
That cord is wild!
Yeah. Love that old vintage stuff.
se
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