1/8 inch to speaker wire?

I use an Apogee One with my Macbook. I have a pair of old speakers that use regular speaker wire. I would like to connect those to the output jack on the Apogee Duet. Anybody know the easiest way to do this? Does anybody manufacture something that converts from 1/8 to speaker wire?
(my original message said 3.5 mm to speaker wire - I think I mean 1/8'' to speaker wire)
Message was edited by: Lizard Man

Hi,
I tried finding out a converter for your 3.5 mm speaker wire to 1/8" gauge but I only found one that goes from 3.5mm to 1/4." The best thing to do is soldering the wires evenly into your Apogee.
Check this link I found a guy had a similar problem:
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/1/t1233149-standard-speaker-wire-to-3-5mm-1-8-ja ck-converter/
Hope this info helps,
Vicente

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