Jumpers

phipiper10

For all of the tweaking and changing cables and isolation feet and cleaning records and removing static and demagnetizing and balancing etc...is too little attention paid to jumpers on the back of speakers?

You do 100 things up stream and worry about DACs and power conditioners and have $300 or more in cables up stream then you put your signal onto a cheap piece of tin for the last few inches assuming you have two sets of binding posts.

Wouldn't it be best to have jumpers match the rest of your wire and have similar attributes to match (synergy)? I'm not saying this is my primary concern but with all the other things people do seems not much attention is paid here.

Willow

mine have been replaced

janmike

Agreed. I replaced mine on the centre channel. This rest of my speakers are bi-wired.

SlowcarIX

so what was the before and after improvement?

wingnut4772

Jumpers were my first foray to the Dark Side.

phipiper10

Making my own was the first thing I ever did in terms of tweaking. I thought I was so cool. I was nervous ...am I doing this right etc. I didn't do any scientific testing. Maybe I should go back and test stuff out now that I have an entirely different system.

I used some audioquest x2 I had leftover.

This is what I had done on the back of my RT800i at the time with my 300 disc changer and Onkyo receiver. Actually I will test this out now that I have a more resolving setup to see what difference if any there is and report back. The only way to know for sure right!

WilliamM2

Wouldn't it be best to have jumpers match the rest of your wire and have similar attributes to match (synergy)? I'm not saying this is my primary concern but with all the other things people do seems not much attention is paid here.

With that logic you would need to replace all the internal wiring with the same wire as well. Not to mention re-doing the crossovers with point to point wiring, so you can avoid all the traces on the PCB. Then there is the leads on the caps, resistors, and the wire in the inductors...

Face

WilliamM2 wrote: »

With that logic you would need to replace all the internal wiring with the same wire as well. Not to mention re-doing the crossovers with point to point wiring, so you can avoid all the traces on the PCB. Then there is the leads on the caps, and the wire in the inductors...

I replaced all internal wiring with silver cable and also replaced all solder joints on the crossover with silver solder. Changing inductors can give negative results due to different resistances, otherwise I would have done that already. Point to point wiring is in the works though.