Sonus Faber Olympica III's - anyone using jumpers on them ????

I will get rid of my jumpers then... thanks for the advice!

Hey garebear. You have great taste in loudspeakers...8)

Get rid of those supplied jumper plates,they sound bad.. I would have Cardas make you a pair of Cardas Clear Beyond jumpers[or,as close as you can get to the Clear Beyonds] with ’banana ends all around’... or ’spade on one side and bananas on the other’.

Also,connecting the speaker cables to the lower terminals is the way to go. I tried connecting my cables to the upper post’s and thought the quality of sound suffered big time in that hook-up scheme. SF recommends bi wiring as opposed to jumpers... ymmv.

I have used Nordost reference jumpers to good effect on my Olympica III’s. They made a huge improvement and are highly recommended. Also,the more you play the III’s the better they sound. 80 hours is not nearly enough time on these superb loudspeakers. I have at least a 1000 hours on mine and the more I listen the more impressed I become. I love these speakers. For me they hit all the right parameters in what I was looking for in a speaker system.

If you want the ultimate way of hooking up the Sonus fabers... using a identical second run would be the way to go... in my opinion. I am using two runs of the new Klee loudspeaker cables and am one happy camper...they are a match made in heaven with my III’s...Good luck.

Not a SF owner, but can speak for a recent change to jumpers and their possible merits.

I own a pair of Opera floorstanders (they're at least Italian!)which have biwire connections that I utilized until I upgraded cables(non biwire)

While I actually never listened with the stock  jumper plates, I initially used copper foil, and the sound was great. I also experimented with both upper and lower posts, as many insist the UPPER may improve sonics. Couldn't hear a difference.

Purchased jumpers of equal quality to the cable and it did make a sonic improvement, along with connecting cables into top post.

I experienced this, and I'm a HUGE skeptic of audio voodoo-especially cable.

The best way IMO, is to buy a pair(banana plug in your case) and try. You can alway return them if you aren't satisfied.

Good luck.