Spades to RCA Jacks help

OzzieP said:

I have a nice cable run already installed neatly that ends in Spades.
New sub accepts RCA jack. It would be a major deal to re-run a new cable.

1. Is there a Spade to RCA jack connector I could use?
2. Should I bite the bullet and re-wire this PITA run?
3. Any negative with going with a wireless set up?

Thanks

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Can just cut the spades off and use something like this:
AILTECK RCA Cable Audio Adapter, Phono Speaker Wire to Male RCA Connector Adapter Plug, AV Screw Terminal solderless Adapter(2-Pack) Amazon.com: AILTECK RCA Cable Audio Adapter, Phono Speaker Wire to Male RCA Connector Adapter Plug, AV Screw Terminal solderless Adapter(2-Pack): Industrial & Scientific

Thanks that should do the trick!

Just curious:

Cabling that ends in spades? Are those really signal cables, or are they speaker wires? I'd expect those to be speaker wires.

I don't know that the shielding on speaker wires would be inadequate to allow them to be used as signal cables, but I'm not optimistic about that.

They are XLO/VDO ER11 speaker cables. Currently feeding the front three channels and dual subs that I am replacing.

OzzieP said:

They are XLO/VDO ER11 speaker cables. Currently feeding the front three channels and dual subs that I am replacing.

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I'm unfamiliar with that. Looks like nice speaker wire, but I doubt that the shielding is up to coaxial signal cable standards. I can't pretend to know that for sure. Feeling lucky?

Is the cable somehow "feeding" the dual subs? (Passive subs? Unusual wiring?)

To answer a question from your first post, the inescapable down side to a wireless adapter is added latency (delay). I've used an Outlaw Audio OAW4 adapter. I didn't attempt to check the delay, but I have read claims of 16 ms. (1ms roughly corresponds to moving the sub 1 foot, 0.3m, farther.) I don't know how much delay the 3700 can compensate for in the Audyssey calibration. I guess it'd be fine if the subs are not farther than 30' (9m) than the main speakers from the listening position. The main problem with e OAW4 was that I had to keep playing with the channel setting (4 choices) to keep a good connection. Interference, maybe. Unfortunately, they use 2.4 GHz, (WiFi, Bluetooth, maybe some cordless phones.)

Yep. passive subs but they are getting replaced with subs that have their own amps.
I was going to use the current XLO/VDO cables which have worked great so far.

OzzieP said:

Yep. passive subs but they are getting replaced with subs that have their own amps.
I was going to use the current XLO/VDO cables which have worked great so far.

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The cables don't usually have pickup problems when used with low impedance loads like speakers or passive subs.

The shielding issues with active subs (high input impedance) are quite different. I can't swear that speaker cables won't work, but they are not intended for that purpose. If they're the "zip cord" type (2 conductors, unshielded), I would be pessimistic.