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Problrm with spade and my amp......?

I have two questions.....My new ASL Hurricanes (still breaking in) have different speaker lugs in the back then my ARC VT 100. Right now I have one set of speakers connected to the post of the amp via the spades sitting around the post but spread out a bit. The other mono amp, I just have one side of the spade connected into the the hole of the post and not around the post. Will that make a difference or degrade the sound???

My second question is....without doing anything on the Hurricane speaker post, does anyone sell larger, better, adjustable spade's for my speaker cables (Acoustic Zen) where I can easily fit the old ones into the newer ones the then into the amps????
rwd

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sidssp
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Rick,

I don't think what you are doing will degrade the sound but psychologically it might. I am more concern about the dangling half of the spade. If they are exposed, they might be at risk of accidental short. So for the safety purposes you might want to re-terminate them with the right size spades. I re-terminate my HT Pro-9 myself with smaller spades to fit the Vandy 5 but if you are not comfortable with DIY projects, you might want to ask Acoustic Zen to do it for you.

BTW, how does your Hurricane sound?
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