Excellent post, Ben. Thanks!
A few questions and comments:
1)Did the arrangement with the Kimber cables also employ the jumpers?
If not, I would not necessarily attribute the differences you heard to the cables. In particular, as we discussed in the other thread, the presence or absence of the jumpers may have significant effects in the bass region.
2)As a point of reference, how long are the cables?
3)Re "Additionally, I can always try a true bi-wire with bare ends, in which Paul also recommends using the jumpers. This makes sense if you look at the description of parallel bi-wiring," keep in mind, as we discussed in the other thread and as Tvad commented above, that by any widely recognized definition a configuration that utilizes the jumpers is not "true bi-wiring."
Best regards,
-- Al
A few questions and comments:
1)Did the arrangement with the Kimber cables also employ the jumpers?
If not, I would not necessarily attribute the differences you heard to the cables. In particular, as we discussed in the other thread, the presence or absence of the jumpers may have significant effects in the bass region.
2)As a point of reference, how long are the cables?
3)Re "Additionally, I can always try a true bi-wire with bare ends, in which Paul also recommends using the jumpers. This makes sense if you look at the description of parallel bi-wiring," keep in mind, as we discussed in the other thread and as Tvad commented above, that by any widely recognized definition a configuration that utilizes the jumpers is not "true bi-wiring."
Best regards,
-- Al