Sound color with different jumper materials,

Take two pieces of wire, check the way they were pushed through the extrusion die. Twist 12-14" of # 18 or 16 UP OCC SC copper with .99999 UP OCC Silver. 4-5 twist per inch Clockwise. Put the 2 in an air tube. Twist 8" of the two tubes. Zip-Ty to hold. 

Kitty corner the - + from bottom left to top right. Remember the direction the wire went through the dies and that is the direction of the arrow for reference. Mark the outside of the air tube. Find someone to condition your new cables. You just built the best jumpers you can if your going to go that route. 1-200 hours and you can swap the position where you want. Once you make up your mind, find a good enhancer and treat the ends. Tighten everything and leave it. It only gets better with time.

@helmholtzsoul :connecting the jumpers diagonally will invert the HF driver phase with respect to the LF/woofer. Bad idea, contrary to the speaker designer's choice!

I tried both neotech solid and stranded 12 gauge.I wanted to like the solid but stranded just was smoother...in my system.Mundorf was recommended to me and was nice sounding...but ultimately went with copper.Ultimately zavfinos were the winners over my efforts.

digsmithd, Zavinos are ~400$ copper-silver.  Anti cable level 5 are ~200$ gold-silver.  May be it is because the lenght is 260 mm for the Zavinos, instead of 150 mm for the Level 5 ?  Any one tried the Level 5 Jumper from Anti cable ?

jasonbourne521,734 posts

04-10-2022 at 04:49am 

@helmholtzsoul : connecting the jumpers diagonally will invert the HF driver phase with respect to the LF/woofer. Bad idea, contrary to the speaker designer's choice!

jason if I inferred swapping or inverting the wires, I certainly didn't mean to. I simply meant try the speaker cables in different positions but keep them phase correct.

top left and bottom right. THEN bottom left and top right for the speaker cable hook up..

Sounds funny but if you hook the wires up backwards to an XO with simple 6 or 12db slopes, it's not just the drivers that are moving the wrong direction, so is the AC signal. The signal hits a woofer backwards at full frequency, then exits to the inductor. The other way around it acts as a 6db first order LP filter.

Not all cable is equal. That little double UP OCC silver/copper/silicone jumper is a real eye opener. If you actually want to have some made they are about 30-100 dollars depending on the quality of the terminal ends and if you have a buddy with a conditioner. UP-OCC copper/silver ribbons are a good looking way to go also with super high detail.

Of all the people I hang with only ONE buys expensive cabling. We all have the best at a fraction of the cost. 

williewonka's helix don't even bother looking further. If you can't make that cable sound good, get your ears fixed, or just give your money away and keep the helix.

Tune the room and away you go.

My best to you all.