Anyone using "jumper" cables?

They make a lot of difference, I have tried many on my biwire speakers. It is just too expensive and inconvenient to use 2 runs of Golden Reference. The Cardas jumpers have worked best all round but silver jumpers have a different sound that you might like better. Tried the anti cable jumpers but didn't get the results I wanted, others apparently have. Most supplied jumpers are not of great quality so experiment. Right now I an taking a break with my Mini Utopias, which are single wire. You can get short lengths of high quality copper and silver wire without breaking the bank, try it out.

The speakers I use are the Spendor SP -1/2Es. I also use the Mapleshade jumpers, which work well and are cheap. I would not confine myself to the same brand or material necessarily , the jumpers have a different job to do than the main cables.

The main cables carry the full signal to the woofer terminal. The jumpers transfer the mid and high signal to those units.The two crossovers are separate, hence the need for the jumpers. So since the bass signal will be removed by the crossover for the upper units the jumpers do not have to preform well in the bass area. It is their performance in the upper frequency area that is critical. In general terms this means that they can be of smaller gauge and lighter weight than the main cable which has to excel in all frequencies. My Cardas jumpers are a fraction of the size of the Golden Reference main cables and cost $120 as opposed to $2400. Since the main cables connect directly to the woofer terminals the jumpers will have no effect on bass performance. It is , of course, possible to connect the main cables to the upper drivers but if high power is being transferred from the amp the other is usual preferred. In that case the jumpers would be transferring the low frequency signal: the high frequency would be carried also but would be filtered out by the crossover and therefore irrelevant. In neither case do the jumpers act on BOTH crossovers, it is either/or.