chord signature jumpers

[hifinutt]

i unfortunately have biwirerable speakers and over the past months i have had may sets of jumpers to try and tried various postions

the best sound i get is using the main speaker cable [analysis plus silver oval] postive to HF and negative to LF . more coherant and 3d sound

but have tried silver jumpers [150 pounds]

suprasword [didn`t fit ]

vertex mncayo [ 500 ish] didn`t sound good at all

analysis plus big silver oval [ in at moment on demo ]

but the best out of all of them is the 45 pound chord signature jumpers , sounds superb , easy to use and nothing at all can beat it in my experience over several months

[DSJR]

All you need are the gold plated brass jumpers as used by most manufacturers. Gold conducts better than silver so should be the best thing to use

[Edit from below] - I must have it wrong, but I *would* say that speakers would have been designed and balanced with the supplied bi-wire links, wouldn't they?

[Hydie]

All you need are the gold plated brass jumpers as used by most manufacturers. Gold conducts better than silver so should be the best thing to use

Surley silver is best then copper and gold last. Gold is used because it doesn't tarnish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistivity

[Steve Toy]

Well no thanks to DSJR I've sold mine thanks. Dave they are awful those jumper bars despite your theory. I use Coherent jumpe leads. They cost 150 quid, almost double my speaker cable but are a worthwhile improvement over both the bars and the Chord Sigs.

[hifi_dave]

I hate to disagree with DSJR but I've got a box somewhere full of various gold-plated jumper bars, all of which were bested by a short length of decent cable.

I think the problem with the gold-plated jobbies is that if you could scrape off the gold and melt it down, the actual material you have would just about make enough wire to make a fuse and that is what you are listening to.

I've never yet replaced a set of jumpers (some of them quite exotic) with a bit of wire and not heard an improvement. The wire jumper doesn't have to be anything special - Chord Rumour or Odyssey are plenty good enough especially when you consider what is inside the speaker.

[Alex_UK]

Surely the easiest option is just to use a bit of the same wire you are using for the speaker cable -well, what I do, anyway, my theory being that you want the same cable feeding the HF and LF?

[DSJR]

I hate to disagree with DSJR but I've got a box somewhere full of various gold-plated jumper bars, all of which were bested by a short length of decent cable.

I think the problem with the gold-plated jobbies is that if you could scrape off the gold and melt it down, the actual material you have would just about make enough wire to make a fuse and that is what you are listening to.

I've never yet replaced a set of jumpers (some of them quite exotic) with a bit of wire and not heard an improvement. The wire jumper doesn't have to be anything special - Chord Rumour or Odyssey are plenty good enough especially when you consider what is inside the speaker.

Well thank heavens that at least two of my favourite speaker manufacturers have seen sense and designed decent crossovers that don't need bi-wire terminals!

The most that those bars/links are going to add is a tiny fraction of an Ohm to the loading - amazing that this can apparently be heard. The only ones I noticed were the original thick brass links Harbeth used decades ago, they now have them plated by a clock-maker, although each new model has abandoned the idea as it causes too much trouble and makes no difference to their speakers (they claim).

[Macca]

Why not bi-wire the 'speakers properly and forget the jumpers?

[The Vinyl Adventure]

In the absence of biwire and special little linky things - ie using the supplied metal things... is it better to connect to the high or low terminal

[Alex_UK]

In the absence of biwire and special little linky things - ie using the supplied metal things... is it better to connect to the high or low terminal

Try it each way - bet you a tenner there's no difference...