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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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bill_k
911 posts
 

@soix - With all due respect, what the OP suggests is diagonal connection of a standard speaker cable to a bi-wirable speaker with jumpers. That is what Nordost recommends for connection to bi-wirable speakers, their current speaker cables are not even available in a true bi-wired configuration.

jl35
3,976 posts
 

The Nordost website says to avoid internal bi-wire cables, and not to use a cheaper double run...they say use the best single cable you can afford and equivalent jumpers...until you can afford a double run of their good cables !!!

soix
9,456 posts
 

@bill_k You’re correct — I misread the original post and thanks for the correction.  My bad and apologies to @daveyf for my mistake.  I still do highly recommend trying jumpers along with bi-wiring if you swing that way. 

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curiousjim
4,631 posts
 

I found most speakers that can be bi-wired have a steel plate covered with chrome or maybe gold to jump the highs and lows.  Copper wire has to be better that steel, so I’ve been using jumpers forever.

sandrodg73
109 posts
 

I just tried the diagonal bi wire method tonight.  Took out my factory jumpers, installed some 8 gage jumpers and did the diagonal connection off of the amp.  I was a skeptic but figured that replacing the factory jumpers couldn't hurt.  I bought cheap jumpers off of Amazon from Worlds Best Cables. Quality looks good.  I wasn't going to spend hundreds on inches of wire. As an electrician I was very skeptical because as stated previously,  electricaly top post is same as bottom with jumpers installed. 

But damn.....a difference it did make. I wasn't happy with it, but it did make an obvious difference. It made my speakers brighter which im not a fan of. Probably because moving the - to the top post and getting rid of the crap factory jumpers allows more current to flow to the tweeters. I didn't care for it. I left jumpers in and moved speaker cable back down.  Took the brightness out and sound became smooth again. Moral of the story is that I'm now a believer in replacing factory jumpers, but for my set up and taste the diagonal method wasn't pleasing. Im may try it again and run ARC to see what happens.  Either way I'm running room correction again because it definitely changed things.  

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