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Wondering about jumpers..

This maybe a silly question but does quality play a big part with jumpers.
My speakers are bi-wireable but I want to stay with single cables.I tried bi-wiring but choose against it.
Now I only have the stock metal plate between posts.
Could I make this a DIY project with good 10-12 gauge wire and decent connections or should I buy a pair of quality jumpers?...Cardas as an example.
I think I read somewhere try to use material the same as your speaker cables.
Any suggestions for jumpers or material would be very much appreciated.
devon

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rushton
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It's definitely worth replacing the metal plates: good quality wire will almost always out-perform them. The Cardas jumber cables are good and not very expensive. And I've heard really good results with just some solid core silver wire connected directly without spade lugs.
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rushton
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Sdatch, I've owned two speakers over the years that were bi-wireable: Vandertseen 2Cs and Celestion SL-700s. In the case of both of these speakers, each sounded much better bi-wired than single-wired with a good quality jumper cable. Designers, and our friend Redkiwi, clearly differ on whether bi-wiring is a good approach. But, in the case of these two speakers, using the bi-wire capability did allow for improved sonics in my system at the time.

There is a discussion of the "advantages" of bi-wiring on the Vandersteen web site that will tell you more about this than I could ever pretend to explain.
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