Aerius i jumpers

[iaerius]

My recently purchased 1997 Aerius i came with only one jumper per side.
They were attached to the positive terminals. Is this normal ?
A.

 

[Audioseduction]

Each speaker should have a pair of jumpers. One for the positive posts and one for the negative posts. So a total of 4 jumpers.

 

[iaerius]

Oh well, guess I got taken for a pair of jumpers

 

[TomDac]

here you go:

http://www.anticables.com/jumpers.html


they look cool!

 

[Gordon Gray]

Trash the supplied jumpers. They are garbage.

Assuming you are not going to bi-amp, try Tom's link or pursue an equal alternative. Any "good" speaker wire with spades will do fine.

GG

 

[amey01]

Yep - supplied jumpers are only to "get you going" - use good speaker cable or better still, bi-wire.

 

[jvitez]

Definitely bi-wire. If you want great price/performance ratio, check out Signal Cable. I've been using their bi-wired Ultra speaker cable and Analogue 2 RCA's until a recent upgrade to Nordost products. But for the price, Signal Cable is fantastic. I've never tried or heard Anti-cables, but they sound interesting too.

 

[iaerius]

Thank you all for your replies and suggestions.
I currently bi-wire the speakers but I was just wondering what gives

p.s. I tried Anti-Cables speaker cable with Proac Tablette 50 connected to Cary SLI-80 sig amp and and they were absolutely THE worst cables I've ever heard
Perhaps not a good match with the Tablettes
A

 

[urskog]

I assume you already know this but just in case you don't, remember to remove those jumpers when biwiring.

 

[Gordon Gray]

Hi A,

Was the speaker wire fully "broken in" when you did the listening test?

GG

 

[iaerius]

Hi A,

Was the speaker wire fully "broken in" when you did the listening test?

GG

Do you mean the Anti-Cables ? They were.

 

[iaerius]

I assume you already know this but just in case you don't, remember to remove those jumpers when biwiring.

Assumed correctly

 

[Bernard]

I read somewhere (probably here) that when bi-wiring you should jumper together the negative terminals, though it did not say why. I can only theorize that the reason for it is that you may want to establish the same ground reference at both terminals.