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If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers

Hello All!

Newbie here : ) I have a pair of speakers (MartinLogan Motion 40i) that have, according to the website, "dual five-way binding post speaker terminals which allow bi-amping or bi-wiring." As you can see in the top right photo of the speaker terminals in this link, the speakers came with free jumpers (the jumpers look like just a sheet of conductive metal) between the 4 terminals. 

https://www.martinlogan.com/en/product/motion-40i

So when purchasing speaker cables, placing the best quality connection over cost, should I:

1. (Cheapest) Get single banana plugs and use the included free jumpers, or

2. (More costly but will it be WAY better?) Get Bi-wire speaker cables and remove the free jumpers.

3. Get single banana plugs, and find some high quality jumpers to replace the free included jumpers.

If it doesnt matter much to sound quality, it seems option #1 is best as its cheapest. However my goal is to get the best/most efficient connection so i suspect options #2 or #3 might be the way to go? 

Many thanks for any advice!

 

steve_a001

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soix
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My experience — I found an improvement in shotgun biwire but it is relatively subtle and came at a fairly high price because my cables are expensive.  If you’re happy with all your other components and are looking for a potential improvement it could be worthwhile, otherwise I’d single wire and put in jumpers and put the $$$ to improve a component.  Jumpers need not be expensive or the same brand BTW, and something like this for like 16 bucks would be fine and certainly better than the metal plates…

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=jumper+cables&_sop=12&_kwlnd=1

Hope this helps. 

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