Free Tip for Jumpers


If you have already replaced the stock jumpers on your bi wire speakers I found this to be a nice boost in sound quality. It was a Nordost section of Music Direct, FYI.

Enjoy!

Diagonal Bi-Wire

For those looking for maximum performance from their bi-wire speakers, Nordost has a recommendation. Connect your speaker wire to the speaker as follows: Red lead to the Red midrange/bass post, Black lead to the Black tweeter post. Then insert the Norse Jumpers as you normally would, sit back and hold on to your socks. The effect is astounding, with greater focus, detail and less haze and grain. We don't really understand how it works, but it does so try it for yourself!

pclay

Showing 1 response by knownothing

My experience with three different models of Wharfedale monitors is that:

1) replacing the metal bars from the factory with jumpers improves the overall sound of the speakers 

2) the metal in the jumper cables matters with silver tipping the sound up towards treble emphasis compared with copper

3) connecting both red and black speaker cable leads on the HF terminals has a similar overall effect as connecting silver jumpers, emphasizing treble frequencies, while connecting both speaker cable ends to the LF terminals will emphasize bass and midrange and slightly roll off treble

4) cross wiring the + and - leads to the HF and LF terminals affects soundstaging, adding more detail to and widening the stereo image, with the positive lead attached to the HF terminal of the speaker slightly emphasizing treble, (opposite of what is described above?) but not to the same degree as attaching both cable ends to the HF posts.

I found these results on all three types of Wharfedale speakers of different vintages and costs.  Newer Wharfedales come with instructions on these various wiring configurations when using single wire cables.  

I have tried all kinds of homemade jumpers and some cheaper commercially available versions.  I am currently using some jumpers from AliExpress that are supposedly silver plated OCC copper with rhodium plated copper spades that cost between $11 and $45.  These seem super well made and sound fantastic to my ears.  The Worlds Best Cable jumpers mentioned in this thread from Amazon are supposed to be Canare wire, look well-made and are probably leaps ahead of the metal plates that come stock with many speakers.

YMMV

kn