speaker jumpers

superjunior
superjunior Posts: 1,632
edited May 2012 in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
anyone got any suggestions for a set of pre-made speaker jumpers? I've been wanting to try something other than the stock jumper plates as I hear there is a noticable improvement. I've read a few DIY threads but I"m not all that handy, yet. trying to keep it on the cheap, was looking at these
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=speaker+jumpers&_sacat=See-All-Categories
I'm running an old set of mit T3s. Is there any material in the jumpers I should look for/avoid that might have an adverse effect with my speaker cables?
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    oops, try that again
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Audiophile-Gold-Plated-Spade-Speaker-Jumper-Cable-Pair_W0QQitemZ260530114773QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca8ce10d5
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    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,703
    edited December 2009
    Just about any cable will be better than the jumper plates. However, IMO it's best to use jumper cable from the same manufacturer as your speaker cables.

    That said, for $20.00 it's hard to go wrong.
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  • jparker82
    jparker82 Posts: 54
    edited December 2009
    If you try these please let me know how they sound(work). I have seen these people with a lot of stuff on ebay @ a good price. Just been leary due to the fact they are in Hong Kong. Bought some scan discs for my boat electronics from HK and it took 4ever for them to show up. I have Polk LSI running with Nordost blue heaven rev2 biwire and love them I just don't want to spend that kind of money on three more sets.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    Just about any cable will be better than the jumper plates. However, IMO it's best to use jumper cable from the same manufacturer as your speaker cables.

    That said, for $20.00 it's hard to go wrong.

    looked all over MITs webste and couldn't find them, not sure I want to see the price tag though
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    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    jparker82 wrote: »
    If you try these please let me know how they sound(work). I have seen these people with a lot of stuff on ebay @ a good price. Just been leary due to the fact they are in Hong Kong. Bought some scan discs for my boat electronics from HK and it took 4ever for them to show up. I have Polk LSI running with Nordost blue heaven rev2 biwire and love them I just don't want to spend that kind of money on three more sets.

    I ordered the mits from a place in HK, took about 3 weeks to get here. they were garenteed to be brand new, and I guess they could be but they look kinda old/faded. I posted a pic in a different thread and someone pointed out that series of mit cable was probably 10 years old so...
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    pioneer elite bdp-05fd
    emotiva xpa-3
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    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,703
    edited December 2009
    superjunior wrote: »
    looked all over MITs webste and couldn't find them, not sure I want to see the price tag though

    The T3's you have are indeed an old series and you will not find any jumpers listed on MIT's site. You have to call them to special order jumpers. Some jumpers made from the current AVT series should work well with your T3's.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    The T3's you have are indeed an old series and you will not find any jumpers listed on MIT's site. You have to call them to special order jumpers. Some jumpers made from the current AVT series should work well with your T3's.

    ah,thats why I couldn't find them. thanks f-1
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    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,703
    edited December 2009
    Always a pleasure to help.
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  • cbruinooge
    cbruinooge Posts: 11
    edited December 2009
    I have an amp made by Emotiva, and it is a beast! I am pretty imressed by them and thought I might give their speaker cables a shot. They look very well made, and are made with 10 guage wire. Here is a link to their Speaker cables and more. I think i'll get the X-Series if I get them. If you get them let us know what you think. Thanks.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,703
    edited December 2009
    Did you even read the OP's question?
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  • wesouth
    wesouth Posts: 41
    edited December 2009
    I have all Emotiva speaker cables and interconnects. They work great... as well as anything I have ever used and I feel good about the 10ga wire and the construction is excellent.
    My Setup:
    Front- Polk Monitor 70
    Center- Polk CS2
    Rear - Polk Monitor 70
    Subs - 2 Polk PSW505
    Receiver - Onkyo TX-SR707
    Amp - Emotiva XPA-5
    Zone 2 Speakers - Polk M40
    CD Player - Emotiva ERC-1
    Interconnects - Emo X-Series
    & Emo Ultra speaker cables
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    Gaming Console - Microsoft XBox 360
    Media Center - Gaming Computer with Blue Ray Drive
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  • wesouth
    wesouth Posts: 41
    edited December 2009
    opps I guess I just replied to a hijacked thread.... sorry
    My Setup:
    Front- Polk Monitor 70
    Center- Polk CS2
    Rear - Polk Monitor 70
    Subs - 2 Polk PSW505
    Receiver - Onkyo TX-SR707
    Amp - Emotiva XPA-5
    Zone 2 Speakers - Polk M40
    CD Player - Emotiva ERC-1
    Interconnects - Emo X-Series
    & Emo Ultra speaker cables
    additional components:
    Television - Samsung LN52B750
    Gaming Console - Microsoft XBox 360
    Media Center - Gaming Computer with Blue Ray Drive
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  • wesouth
    wesouth Posts: 41
    edited December 2009
    I have a question. all the time I read post about how much better sounding a polk speaker is if you replace the speaker jumpers plate with speaker wire. I just cant believe that it would be better. Can someone with experience in this please let me know whether it made a difference with the Polk Monitor 70 speakers. My theory is if it sounded better then Polk wouldnt use the jumper they would use wire right?
    Please let me know if this is worth the effort. Thanks
    My Setup:
    Front- Polk Monitor 70
    Center- Polk CS2
    Rear - Polk Monitor 70
    Subs - 2 Polk PSW505
    Receiver - Onkyo TX-SR707
    Amp - Emotiva XPA-5
    Zone 2 Speakers - Polk M40
    CD Player - Emotiva ERC-1
    Interconnects - Emo X-Series
    & Emo Ultra speaker cables
    additional components:
    Television - Samsung LN52B750
    Gaming Console - Microsoft XBox 360
    Media Center - Gaming Computer with Blue Ray Drive
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,703
    edited December 2009
    My theory is if it sounded better then Polk wouldnt use the jumper they would use wire right?

    Your theory would be incorrect. Polk has a price point to meet as do all other speaker companies. The plates are cheap and plentiful.

    Upgrading the caps and resistors in your speakers will also result in improved sound. Of course, Polk could use the better parts, but you'd pay a lot more for the speakers.
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    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited December 2009
    superJ . . . There are lots of great jumpers out there. Before I biamp'd then biwired my 1.2TLs. I used 12g copper stranded wire as the jumpers and they worked just fine. Are there better options? I'm sure I just never tried them.

    I'm sharing my experience here so I really can't comment on pre-manufactured jumpers and I'm not going to post links to pass off my inexperience as the be all end all.:D;)
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    Upgrading the caps and resistors in your speakers will also result in improved sound. .

    learning how to do this is my next conquest
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    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited December 2009
    superjunior wrote: »
    learning how to do this is my next conquest

    When you get the green and balls up you have plenty of people here with experience to help you on upgrading crossovers.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    superJ . . . There are lots of great jumpers out there. Before I biamp'd then biwired my 1.2TLs. I used 12g copper stranded wire as the jumpers and they worked just fine. Are there better options? I'm sure I just never tried them.

    I'm sharing my experience here so I really can't comment on pre-manufactured jumpers and I'm not going to post links to pass off my inexperience as the be all end all.:D;)

    I hear ya, I'd like to make my own but like I said I'm not too handy, yet. they'd come out looking like **** I'm sure. I'll look around, call mit and see what they can do, not gonna pull the trigger tonight just getting some ideas
    thanks
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    monster power hdp 2550
    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited December 2009
    superjunior wrote: »
    I hear ya, I'd like to make my own but like I said I'm not too handy, yet. they'd come out looking like **** I'm sure. I'll look around, call mit and see what they can do, not gonna pull the trigger tonight just getting some ideas
    thanks

    What's to do? You cut a few inches of wire, strip the ends then wrap them around the post or try to get them through the holes and voila your done. Make sure you really tighten the nuts.
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited December 2009
    Thought I'd throw a little bit of inspiration your way.

    I too wanted to replace my jumpers, but more importantly with something made by the same co. as my speaker cables. I'm running a pair of older MIT T5's and I really like them over my old Belden5000 I had. Having an extra speaker cable what'd I do?

    You guessed it. I used these jumpers for my Magnepan speakers when I was running them with the maggie-mates high-pass modules but now I'm using them in place of my stock jumpers in my LSi's. I can't say I hear much of a difference but that's because my speakers are still breaking in but they did make a difference in the Magnepans so that was enough for me to use them. Only thing I've got going for me is extensive use with a soldering iron, other than that I'm not too much of a DIY'er and this is what I was able to make. Enjoy!

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited December 2009
    Great idea!!!
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    What's to do? You cut a few inches of wire, strip the ends then wrap them around the post or try to get them through the holes and voila your done. Make sure you really tighten the nuts.
    cause I'd want them to look like this, maybe I'll give it a go :)
    kawizx9r wrote: »
    Thought I'd throw a little bit of inspiration your way.

    I too wanted to replace my jumpers, but more importantly with something made by the same co. as my speaker cables. I'm running a pair of older MIT T5's and I really like them over my old Belden5000 I had. Having an extra speaker cable what'd I do?

    You guessed it. I used these jumpers for my Magnepan speakers when I was running them with the maggie-mates high-pass modules but now I'm using them in place of my stock jumpers in my LSi's. I can't say I hear much of a difference but that's because my speakers are still breaking in but they did make a difference in the Magnepans so that was enough for me to use them. Only thing I've got going for me is extensive use with a soldering iron, other than that I'm not too much of a DIY'er and this is what I was able to make. Enjoy!

    SNV12466.jpg

    nice job Freddy!
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    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited December 2009
    WELL EXCUUUUUUUSSSSSEEEE MEEEEEEEEEE!!!! In my best Steve Martin voice.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    WELL EXCUUUUUUUSSSSSEEEE MEEEEEEEEEE!!!! In my best Steve Martin voice.

    lol! :p
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    monster power hdp 2550
    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • wesouth
    wesouth Posts: 41
    edited December 2009
    these jumpers you made are nice, but how do the plugs to connect? it connects to a binding post inside the speaker, right?
    My Setup:
    Front- Polk Monitor 70
    Center- Polk CS2
    Rear - Polk Monitor 70
    Subs - 2 Polk PSW505
    Receiver - Onkyo TX-SR707
    Amp - Emotiva XPA-5
    Zone 2 Speakers - Polk M40
    CD Player - Emotiva ERC-1
    Interconnects - Emo X-Series
    & Emo Ultra speaker cables
    additional components:
    Television - Samsung LN52B750
    Gaming Console - Microsoft XBox 360
    Media Center - Gaming Computer with Blue Ray Drive
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited December 2009
    wesouth wrote: »
    these jumpers you made are nice, but how do the plugs to connect? it connects to a binding post inside the speaker, right?

    The speakers I'm using these with have 5-way binding posts. I use spade ends on my speaker wire so that leaves my posts free to hook up a pair with banana ends (same with the OP's speakers). I'll take a pic to show ya.

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  • DForeman
    DForeman Posts: 468
    edited January 2010
    F1nut wrote: »
    Just about any cable will be better than the jumper plates. However, IMO it's best to use jumper cable from the same manufacturer as your speaker cables.

    Good to know. Yet another tweak I was unaware of (still learning).

    Like the OP, I also am not handy so just ordered a set of jumpers from Frank at Signal (to go with my Signal Ultra speaker cables).

    Thanks for the info.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited January 2010
    looking at these jumpers I was curious about the arrows. speaker cables sapposed to go to the side the arrows are pointing to - or from?
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    pioneer elite vsx-92txh
    pioneer elite bdp-05fd
    emotiva xpa-3
    monster power hdp 2550
    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited January 2010
    Just like MIT cables and other directional cables, just point the direction in which signal is flowing.

    IE Speaker cables, power is going from the amp torwards your speakers so point the arrow torwards your speakers. :)
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited January 2010
    kawizx9r wrote: »
    Just like MIT cables and other directional cables, just point the direction in which signal is flowing.

    IE Speaker cables, power is going from the amp torwards your speakers so point the arrow torwards your speakers. :)

    ok so the speaker cable would be plugged into the binding post where the jumper cable arrows begin correct?
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    pioneer elite bdp-05fd
    emotiva xpa-3
    monster power hdp 2550
    sa 8300 hd dvr
    sda 2b's
    fronts - rti a9's
    center - csi a6
    surrounds - fxi a6's
    sub - polk dsw pro 600
    harmony one
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