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Bi-Wire Jumpers

Just an FYI I have a pair of Sonus Faber Olympica three's I am using Cardas golden reference, never bothered with the Bi-Wire option just listened for almost a year , then on a whim bought a pair of Cardas Bi-wire jumpers. What a difference ! those little plates were killing performance , those Jumpers cost me 100.00 and made just an awesome improvement in just about every aspect of the speakers performance, I was stunned. my advice, ditch those little metal plates as fast as you can. I think now I might just go for a set of Bi-Wire cables.
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jl35
3,977 posts
 
agree with the quality jumpers...don't bother with internal biwire...dual run is great, but must be compared to double cost main cables/jumpers for accurate comparison...
itzhak1969
515 posts
 
Yes aI aree jumpers are very important,Bi wire cables is useless don't bother with this 
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daveyf
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Having run a bi-wire set up for many years, I do not agree that running bi-wire is 'useless' as itzhak1969 claims. Many speakers have their x-overs optimized for a bi-wire set up, including many of the SF models. If you have the option of running bi-wire and can accommodate that vs. running single wire onto the bi-wire connections and then using a decent jumper, IME the bi-wire set up is superior. This has always been my experience if the speaker was designed for this type of connection. ( albeit many were not).
jl35
3,977 posts
 
yes, as always is system dependent, so borrow some and compare first...
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