Speaker wiring question

Keep connections as designed on bottom end & you will get much better performance if you swap out those horrible jumper bars for some real cable jumpers...

Not much of a difference. :) Just don't cross the streams.

I would be curious to see if anyone ha measured the resistance (etc) across stock bridge bars compared to jumpers.

Also, for my own benefit, is there any downside to making jumpers out of the same speaker wire I am using? In other words, for my low end system I bought 100% copper, low oxygen 12 awg speaker wire. I guess the questions are 1) Would it hurt anything to use it as a jumper? 2) Is there any chance it would improve anything (in low end Polk Audio 3 way towers)?

Thanks for the replies.  Freediver:  they are actually cable jumpers and not brackets.  Why do you think I would get much better performance if I connected to the bottom (low end) just curious.  All the illustrations for non biwiring do show connections being made on the bottom.  just wondering if there is a sonic difference or to  just to keep things uniform.  Would it then matter if you connected to the high end instead? I am going to experiment but don't think I'll be able to hook things up again for a few days

I tried what I mentioned above. Made two pairs of jumpers out of the same speaker wire I'm using for the speakers, good quality, good size. Put banana connectors on one end for the upper posts. Just used bare wire for the bottom posts. Will get some set screw spades for the bottom posts when I get a chance (hard to find them cheap the way you can bananas).

Did it make a difference? Broader sound stage, brighter roomier highs, tighter bass. Really? I don't know. Probably not. I'm the type of guy that would swear that my car runs better after I wax it. ;-)