Biwire vs Single/jumper: Cardas Golden Ref

Yes, that "diagnol" sounds right. I've read about people doing that successfully.

I've tried making cheap jumpers and never had any luck with them - which surprises me a lot. Never tried Romex though.

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It wasn't bad but when I went back to my Cardas jumpers [ $80 each pair] it was a definite improvement; but the Romex was better than the ones you usually get with most speakers. Another attempt to go cheap fails. The Spendor S 100s have provision for tri wiring. The best arrangement I have found for them so far is the main cable to the treble posts, putting spade jumpers between the bass and midrange, and then connecting bananas from the treble post to the bass post, so the midrange gets the signal last. Not what I expected but seems to work; another thing that surprises me is that ON MY SPEAKERS connecting to the bass posts and going to the treble last seems to give more high end than going to the treble first; too much in fact.

By the way great cables these Cardas Golden Reference .. I'm enjoying them (single wire) between Parasound Halo JC1's and Thiel CS 2.4 and I'm finding them a bit forward than my previous Analysis Plus Big Silver Ovals but with better clean highs and mids and a super tuneful bass I'm starting to love since I missed it so tuneful with Silver Ovals.

Happy New Year to everyOne!

Recently Cardas has stated on their website that you will get better results using a single wire with good quality jumpers as opposed to an internal bi-wire. Of course they do not hesitate to mention that a full shotgun bi-wire would be the best solution.

Shunyata agree and no longer make or sell internal bi-wire speaker cables.