Spade Help for Realistic STA-2000

[CDG123]

Hey All,

Long time lurker - first time poster.

I've had an Realistic STA-2000 in storage for years - it belonged to by grandfather. My brief perusal of the forums leads me to think this should be a decent receiver - maybe not Sansui or Marantz good - but decent. Its 75 WPC.

My Fiance had it restored for me for Christmas (about 40 caps replaced, all meters adjuster, out of sync volume control trimmed, tuner aligned, DC offset adjusted etc.)

My brother gave me his old speakers, which I understand are pretty decent (Paradigm 11SE MK2).

I've got a budget DAC which I previously was using with my PC - Music Hall DAC15.2. Going to feed it with a Chromecast Audio to Toslink (mostly spotify premium high quality but some FLACs as well).

Anyway - I'm in the process of getting it all setup.

Trying to figure out what to do for speaker cables. Speakers have standard 5-way posts.

Receiver has two options - these small binding posts which don't appear to accept bananas and RCA speaker outs (strange, I know).

The binding posts are smaller than normal - whole area is only 1 cm across per post. Looks like a 7.5ish mm spade will be needed - with a center gap that is about 3mm wide. If anyone has ones they've used with a Realistic - I'd me much obliged for the recommendation. Probably going to get some belden or canare wire - I only need 5 foot runs - I'm sure 14g would be sufficient.

Any suggestions on decent (and not crazy expensive) spades in this size? I'm in Canada,

In the alternative, I guess I could the end of an RCA interconnect and add bananas for the speakers - but I believe I read somewhere this wasn't recommended.

I also haven't even had it hooked up yet - and am already looking at upgrades. What's my weak link - receiver, dac or speakers?

Thanks guys, and happy holidays!

 

[savatage1973]

Any auto parts store or hardware store will have the spades you need--unless you are looking for gold-plated ones--then you will need to check out Parts Express (US) or Parts Connexion (CN).

 

[goodolpg]

What he ^ said, an auto parts store will have crimp on style spades.
You then may need a crimper tool as well.
Keep in mind the spades come in different colors and there for accept different size wire gauges.
Red, blue, and yellow are common colors/sizes. I think the go red/blue/yellow, red smallest, yellow biggest so the size wire you use may be a factor in what color spades to get.

EDIT/ADDED---a bit odd looking speaker connections on the receiver STA 2000 (no D), I wonder if pins (or bare small gauge wire) or banana plugs would be a better option. Maybe someone with experience with that receiver will offer some help.

NOTE---if it is the STA 2000D model looks like only pins or bare wire would work if it has the original speaker connections.

 

[Oldsansui441]

As the guys above have mentioned, there are plenty here.

https://www.partsconnexion.com/cgi-...1157d6bb78322a865&search_field=spade+terminal

 

[CDG123]

Thanks guys - looking at partsconnexion to find something suitable. Annoyingly, their technical drawings don't often specify units - I'm assuming inches but it could very well be CM.

Hoping to find some small spades to fit that will also accept 12ga wire - but will use 14 if I must

Its a STA-2000 (No D.) And yes - very very strange.

Interestingly, from my family's best recollection, my grandmother bought it for my grandfather for Christmas in 1978 (which from my research seems possible as it was released around that year). That means its about 40 years old this week!

 

[oblomov]

Looks like a nice receiver, CDG. Let us know how everything sounds when all hooked up!

 

[cartop]

I had that receiver back in the day. It was my first decent system all from the Shack. Nice unit, Enjoy.

 

[larryderouin]

16ga up to 50ft is sufficient. 14Ga up to 100ft. Ordinary 16Ga zip cord works well enough and will take a number of different ends. Use spades on the one end (crimp,solder and heat shrink tubing at the joint) and Banana plug on the other (crimp/solder to wire) don't forget the heatshrink (you can color code ech wire with Red and Black tubing).