I'm having a hard time envisioning what the posts and nuts on the Cabasse look like, but is there a split or hole in the post large enough to fit just one of the spade's tines into, rather than trying to get the whole spade around the post? If so, you could do it that way, with one of the spade's tines hanging outside the post shaft, and then tighten the nut down (but not over-tight) on the tine going through the shaft. If none of what I or Twl has suggested seems feasible/possible, my first choice would be to have the speaker binding posts replaced with a more conventional design. Whatever you do, don't mess up your cables modifying them for these posts, you'll never get back a fraction what you paid for 'em.
Spades and Cabasse speaker terminals
This question is similar to one posed in another thread, but the difference is significant (or so I think). My problem is this:
I have a pair of older (1985) Cabasse speakers that have fairly sizable post-type terminals. I guess the idea was to simply use bare wire, which is what I'm using now (some cheap Synergistic Research cable), or huge spades. The terminals have a nut that screws off. The nut has a square peg in it that slides into a groove in the binding post. That way, I guess, the nut and this peg thing screw down on the wire, which is placed in the groove (make sense?).
I am wanting to try out some other (used) speaker cables (Analysis Plus Oval 9, Acoustic Zen Satori, etc.), but the spades on these, even the seemingly huge spades on the Oval 9, are too small for the Cabasse.
So, what are my options? The Cabasse are not fitted for banana plugs, so that's out.
If I must go bare wire at the speaker end, can I (gulp) cut off the spades? This does not seem to be an option with Oval 9, because the cable is more or less a braided, flat ribbon. No way to get that mutha' around a binding post!
I'm not a DIY'er, so performing surgery on the cables to install larger spades is not my forte.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!
I have a pair of older (1985) Cabasse speakers that have fairly sizable post-type terminals. I guess the idea was to simply use bare wire, which is what I'm using now (some cheap Synergistic Research cable), or huge spades. The terminals have a nut that screws off. The nut has a square peg in it that slides into a groove in the binding post. That way, I guess, the nut and this peg thing screw down on the wire, which is placed in the groove (make sense?).
I am wanting to try out some other (used) speaker cables (Analysis Plus Oval 9, Acoustic Zen Satori, etc.), but the spades on these, even the seemingly huge spades on the Oval 9, are too small for the Cabasse.
So, what are my options? The Cabasse are not fitted for banana plugs, so that's out.
If I must go bare wire at the speaker end, can I (gulp) cut off the spades? This does not seem to be an option with Oval 9, because the cable is more or less a braided, flat ribbon. No way to get that mutha' around a binding post!
I'm not a DIY'er, so performing surgery on the cables to install larger spades is not my forte.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!