Speaker Jumpers - Same Brand as Speaker Cables?


My speakers are best bi-wired. I currently have bi-wire speaker cables, but am considering buying very high-priced and probably better speaker cables that are single wire. The manufacturer of the new cables sells jumpers, but they are very expensive and not available used. Do I run an audible risk if I use jumpers from another manufacturer, or should I be "in for a penny, in for a pound" and bite the bullet? Thanks for the advice.
nglazer
There is another thread on Agon you should look at.
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/bi-wire-cables-vs-jumpers
and,
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/to-bi-wire-or-not-2

The brand of cable depends on your speaker. I would contact the manufacturer and find out what they recommend.
That being said, I would get true bi wire cables and be done with it.
Audioquest makes very good cables, and a GO-4 is relatively inexpensive and give good results.
What is your speaker? and what cables are you looking at?
B
If what you mean by single wire is solid core or even stranded, and if it is bare ended (no termination), see if the eye of each speaker binding post is big enough to fit the wire through and have enough wire to simply reach both posts.

I will be doing just that when I get my new Tempo Electric speaker cables, on the advice of the guy who makes them. They are single, solid core and even 14 AWG will fit through the eye of each of my posts, easily.

All the best,
Nonoise
@nonoise .
Aren't you concerned about shorting the wires if they touch something metallic between the two posts?
B
Neal, as with any other audio related question, ask 10 different audiophiles a question, and you will get 11 different answers. ;^)

For my $0.02, I will say that overall, I have had more success with higher quality single run of speaker cable with a quality jumper than I have had with two runs of a lower quality cable.
As for the jumpers, working with the same brand may not require any thinking, but I have also had success using two different companies also.
I try to stay with companies that have a similar tonal balance.

For instance, at this time I own a pair of Silent Source The Music Reference with matching jumpers. I also own a pair of Purist Audio Proteus Provectus speaker cables, and I am using a pair of Elrod Gold Statement jumpers.

I change these cables around when I want to shake things up a bit.
The Silent Source are very transparent and resolving, while still sounding musical. The PAD and the Elrod are both fuller, richer sounding cables.
I did try the SS jumpers with the PAD cables, but I preferred the Elrod jumpers with the PAD.
I have owned PAD jumpers previously, and while I like them, again, I like the Elrod better. In fact, I like the Elrod so much that I have been looking for some used Elrod speaker cables at a reasonable price.

To make a long story short (too late), I prefer higher quality single wire with jumpers over lower quality bi-wire. However, that is only MY opinion.

I'm sure that many will offer many other opinions that may be very different from my own. The great thing about this hobby is no one is right, and no one is wrong. There is no one single path to audio nirvana.

Good luck!

Cheers,
John