Speakers. Jumper wires instead of supplied plates. Any sonic benefits?

I recently upgraded to new amp that has only one set of speaker terminals. Prior to this upgrade, I run bi-wire connection to my BW CM 10’s S2 with two runs of Kimber 4TC wire.

Dropping one run of the cable, I re-installed the supplied jumper plates and currently run with the single set of wires.

A few days ago I started thinking of replacing the supplied jumper plates with small runs of 4tc cable.

This because I did experience the sonic improvement of bi-wire connection with my previous setup.

Reading the "Internet", there seems to be no consensus on sonic benefits of this change. More so, this looks like a very controversial and extremely polarising debate.

Any thoughts or experiences from fellow forum members would be greatly appreciated.

P.S Please post only if you experimented/tested or expirienced the change (or lack of it).

Regards

 

There certainly should be a consensus on this.

 

There is rarely a consensus concerning anything audio related.

That said, it's been my personal experience that replacing those junk jumper plates with high quality speaker cable jumpers does result in better sound.

 

I've heard some of the jumper plates (and spades) have another material between the gold and the copper, hence being electrically polluted. So I like to use wires directly.

 

I use Chord interconnects and cables throughout my system...I figured that another couple of inches introduced to replace the factory supplied jumper plates would not hinder things in any way.

 

Thanks for your replies. I will do the swap and then do some A/B testing. Will report back.

Regards

 

As we perceive things differently differently, sounds can and do effect our likings differently. That one maybe could hope for, is that things that are the same, could be perceived as the same.

 

I had a dedicated set of jumpers for a moment. Tweets don't need as much wire weight, and I noticed that the manufacturer used their IC wire instead of speaker wire for the jumpers. I traded that all in for separate runs even though they were from the same tap. Why not run bi-wire from the same tap and see how that sounds.

 

I replaced the plates on my B&W Matrix 803 II's with jumpers made from Canare Star Quad and I feel that it helped the sound.
YMMV

 

Looking forward to reading your findings. I subjectively couldn't hear a difference.

 

I use jumper cables (SR) and I think they do improve sound/connection.

 

Why not simply connect both runs of 4TC to the same terminal on your amp and continue to run biwire. Unless your previous amp had a speaker selector switch, I'd bet the terminals were tied together internally.

 

What timind said.

 

Fortunately, my Salk HT-2 TL came with Cardas binding posts & jumpers.

 

I'm guessing external jumpers would only have to be as effective as the material utilised internally if the loudspeakers were supplied with a single pair of connectors.

That said, I've experimented with a few types of jumper but came to the conclusion I was being a bit silly, if not a little pretentious if the truth be told, and simply re-installed the OEM jumpers.

If there is a difference, I've never been able to appreciate it.

 

Jumper wires replaced supplied plates on my ML Aerius the difference was an improvement as the woofer/panel seem to be better voiced/incorporated/seamless presentation acting as one...you get the idea.

sean

 

I found that this adjustment on my speakers did help a bit. That plate can be made if very cheap material. While it isn't life changing, it was better for the top end.

However, swapping the pre-in/pre-out jumper in my old Sansui eight, with high quality custom jumpers, was even better.

 

I replaced the thin metal plates on my Epos and use Morrow Audio jumpers and I experienced better definition. Everything just seemed to pull together nicely, it was not a huge investment, looks good and chicks dig it......

 

I replaced the jumper plates with pure copper tape. The tape gives more surface area for the electrons to flow. There was no detriment to the sound and possibly even a slight improvement. 3M 3313 Copper Foil Tape - 3/4" x 18 yds S-14677 - Uline »

 

If you spend much time in these parts, you will soon find that only external wiring, connections and so forth have an effect on sound quality. Unlike internal wiring that never makes a difference so we need not worry about that...

Hope that makes everything clear. But by all means, do whatever makes you happy.

 

I replaced the generic piece of solder-like metal on a previous set of Audio Note J's with Audience 24 connectors. Big improvement!

 

I replaced the factory-fitted tinned copper jumper leads on my old Monitor Audio GR60s with short stretches of my main speaker cable, Atlas Hyper 3.0, and WOW what an improvement.

For the sake of a few pennies, give it a go and answer your own question.

If there's no improvement then put the jumper plates back in place.

 

Call me crazy but I even noticed a difference between two brands of jumper cables (and ended up trading my Nordost jumpers for Transparent)!

 

Must be something in the water up here in the PNW, but yeah, I really noticed the chicks going for my jumpers too - they even look at me different when I walk down the street now.

Seriously though, the generic brass plates don't work for me - I use the reverse "cross", red to tweeter, black to woofer & it sounds better or best of all for me is regular commercial speaker wire jumpers with good spades.

 

Same for me - different brands of commercial jumpers sound different to me too.