Jumpers for Spendors

A friend of mine with Spendor S-8s hates the jumpers that come with the speaker and insists on using high quality jumpers made out of speaker cable. A dealer does the same with all of the speakers that come with double binding posts.

I would definitely recommend replacing those stock jumpers. I had fatwyre.com make a pair of jumpers for my Spendor 1/2Es and my results were very good (and not too expensive). I am using Tara Labs Space & Time Phase II speaker cables, which are rather modest in price, and I had Fatwyre make jumpers out of the same cable.

The new jumpers made a major improvement in upper frequency reproduction. I should mention that it took many hours for the jumpers to settle - so don't expect great result right out of the gate. IMHO, spending $150 on jumpers to match your speaker cables will be money well spent.

I have a pair of 1/2e speakers and when I purchased my Alpha Core Goertz MI-2 Veracity speaker cables I also purchased their copper jumpers ($20). I noticed an improvement over the brass jumpers, but I'm not sure I'd spend $150 on this.

My intellect tells me that those thin mystery-metal jumpers should sound bad, but my ears tell me that they're indistinguishable from cables. And, I've done all the swaps, tests, etc.