Free Tip for Jumpers

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 !!!

@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. 

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.

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.  

I have some leftover #6 bare copper from a lighting ground project on a TV antenna to jump my old AE 1's. Works like a charm on the old metal drivers.