Free Tip for Jumpers


If you have already replaced the stock jumpers on your bi wire speakers I found this to be a nice boost in sound quality. It was a Nordost section of Music Direct, FYI.

Enjoy!

Diagonal Bi-Wire

For those looking for maximum performance from their bi-wire speakers, Nordost has a recommendation. Connect your speaker wire to the speaker as follows: Red lead to the Red midrange/bass post, Black lead to the Black tweeter post. Then insert the Norse Jumpers as you normally would, sit back and hold on to your socks. The effect is astounding, with greater focus, detail and less haze and grain. We don't really understand how it works, but it does so try it for yourself!

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You guys do realize that despite all your manipulations all these connections are going to exactly the same point electrically.  The claims for "astounding" improvements are just simply hogwash, and represent the wants of the user, not the realities.

Why not move the inside speaker leads inside the speaker and combine lower with the upper and eliminate the jumpers all together? That’s what I did on my last speakers. 

I thought about jumpers in a certain way like sky diving or from cliff to rough sea

IME, IF a speaker is designed to be bi-wired, it invariably sounds better without jumpers. A true bi-wire cable works best. While I tend to agree that a single cable split at the speaker end to a bi-wire connection is probably not the best solution, two separate cables is. ( although I prefer a bi-wired single cable vs. stock metal jumpers that are usually supplied by the manufacturer of the speaker).

@daveyf This involves using jumpers while simultaneously using true bi-wired cables.  Not sure if that was clear.