Speaker Jumper Cables

scubalab

I have a pair of LSi-7's and an LSi-C that are missing the factory jumper plates. If anyone has some decent jumpers they're willing to part with (prefer spade-spade), I'm looking for 3 pairs.

For now, I'm just going to make some out of some 10 or 12 AWG cable.

Don't need anything super fancy. Let me know if you have anything and a shipped price to 16823, or if anyone can recommend decent (and cost-effective - say $10-$15/pair or less) aftermarket jumpers.

Much appreciated!

-Al

scubalab

Bump - looking to pick up some jumpers soon. Advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks - Al

ZLTFUL

Shoot me a PM with your shipping info and I will whip together a few sets for you.

pitdogg2

If your speaker cables have spades I'd recommend the jumpers on one side have bananas.
My .02

scubalab

Ryan, PM coming - appreciate the gesture!

Ivan, my current speaker cables are terminated with bananas. I suppose I could do one side of the jumpers with bananas, but one side needs to be spades. Any reason why you recommend one side with nanners? Flexibility for different speaker wire terminations?

Thanks,
-Al

quickr1

I would think he said that so you don't have shove 2 sets of spades in terminal and try to tighten them down.

tonyb

Agreed ^^^

but....10-15 bucks isn't going to snag you high quality, just sayin'. Ideally you want the jumpers to be the same as the speaker cables in brand and series.

scubalab

Understand Tony! These are for the HT fronts and center. The speaker wire I'm running isn't anything spectacular (Belden 10AWG with locking bananas from Blue Jeans Cable). Also, thanks for confirming the reason for spades and nanners for the jumpers Skip.

pitdogg2

quickr1 wrote: »

I would think he said that so you don't have shove 2 sets of spades in terminal and try to tighten them down.

Yes this.^^^^
And agree with skip.

txcoastal1

tonyb wrote: »

Agreed ^^^
Ideally you want the jumpers to be the same as the speaker cables in brand and series.

Many cable companies don't have matching jumpers for each series. many don't have jumpers at all

pitdogg2

txcoastal1 wrote: »

tonyb wrote: »

Agreed ^^^
Ideally you want the jumpers to be the same as the speaker cables in brand and series.

Many cable companies don't have matching jumpers for each series. many don't have jumpers at all

MIT don't but that didn't stop Jesse. One could always get the wire and make their own. The OP's is very common Belden it's a can do scenario.
I hear what your saying though.

Nightfall

MIT makes jumpers. At least they do now, maybe they didn't in the past.

F1nut

MIT has always made jumpers.

txcoastal1

nbrowser wrote: »

Every time I see the term "jumper cables" on here....the mechanic in me sees this...one day I'll make up a miniature for speakers!

Shiite I use those as speaker cables, quick disconnect, insulated connectors, heavy guage...THEE BOMB!!!!

pitdogg2

I stand corrected. I wasn't aware the did I thought you swung something Jesse

pitdogg2

nbrowser wrote: »

Every time I see the term "jumper cables" on here....the mechanic in me sees this...one day I'll make up a miniature for speakers!

Why the need to "miniaturized" most around here would already consider these a little under gauge to begin with.

[Deleted User]

Why not bi-wire with a second pair of wires matching what you already have? The 4 or 5 real audio engineers I know all are big on bi-wiring when possible. In my Monitor 12.2's I put 4 Cardas short/fat posts in each terminal cup and changed the crossover wiring separating the mid-woofers and tweeters so I could bi-wire them. Something to consider since your speakers are already set up for bi-wire.

F1nut

Because using high quality jumpers with high quality speaker cable nets the same results as bi-wiring and likely cost less than two runs of high quality speaker cable.

tonyb

F1nut wrote: »

Because using high quality jumpers with high quality speaker cable nets the same results as bi-wiring and likely cost less than two runs of high quality speaker cable.

Give the man a cigar....bingo !

scubalab

Additionally, the speaker wire is already built into the walls, so I'd have to pull another cable to each of the front L/R, and that would be tricky... Now, the center I could do that way.

helipilotdoug

We can make you Bi-wire jumpers if you need them.