Jumper Cables - use the stock or should they be upgraded ?
........a quick question to the Audiogon group ; should the '' stock supplied '' jumper cables be upgraded if you do not plan to bi-wire ? Also, will it really make a sonic improvement ? Thank you in advance.
For a pair of speakers of that quality, biwire all day long, twice on Sundays!! Pick up a couple pair of quality solid core speaker cables and get out of the speakers all they can give. The owner's manual for the Square 5 Does discuss the virtues of biwiring.
I was just researching this on the web last night. I found the argument made by electrical engineers and some speaker designer the most convincing; they basically claim that the contact point at the provided jumper measures an extremely low resistance compared to the xft of cable and mostly speaker, and the 3in long body of the jumper measures even less. They conclude by saying that trying to improve a speaker performance by changing jumpers is a little bit like trying to improve the aerodynamics of a turtle. I prefer the manufacturer’s jumpers as they look neater than my 3in/10awg ofc copper conductors.
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