which jumpers for Vandersteen 2 Ce's??

Audiolabyrinth, I have previously agreed with you on using single cables with jumpers as opposed to using bi-wire, however in this case I do not. Vandersteen actually designs the crossover to be bi-wired, and recommends it be done with two separate runs of identical cable.

Zd542 is definitely providing the best advice here.
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When I first acquired my Vandy 3A's, I needed to have a pair of Cardas Golden Reference speaker cables reconfigured by the factory into bi-wires. So until that took place, I ran a pair of Cardas jumpers with the speakers cables. After the reconfiguration, I then sold the Cardas jumpers here on Agon.

Audiolab....your experience is WAY different than mine. There is a very definite improvement in MY speakers when they are truly bi-wired... as a matter of fact, having separate wires (not plus and minus on one end, and 2 pluses and 2 minuses on the other) works best...8 separate wires. Also....Cardas cables are the very worst sounding cables in MY system. I had a complete set and was shocked how better the cheap Anti-Cables were...made the change.

Gustav1....I have had every Anti-Cable made. I now am using their shotgun bi-wire set for the speakers, and the Silver Xshadow ended top cables as interconnects. They are better at every level. I am absolutely loving the ones I now have.

Do not use jumpers on Vandersteens. Buy some inexpensive speaker wire at the Shack or go to Home Depot and buy solid core 18ga wire. I think it is called thermostat or door bell wire. It is dirt cheap. It's like a poor man's Anticable with hardly any dielectric.

Wound up running home-brewed 14 gauge solid-core biwires to the Vandys. Essentially 8 wires for the pair, coming back to 4 bananas. Soldered terminations on and they sound almost as good as the true biwire oval 12 that I borrowed. They do somethings better and some worse than the Analysis+. Since my room requires a 17 foot run (WAF for electronics placement) it was a very economical way to go in comparison--even to the AC's. I do plan to audition those, Morrow and signal cable in the future though. Any thoughts on those comparisons would be appreciated.