Gordon Gray
Well-known member
HI all,
Thought I'd share a recent experience. Ordered some custom solid silver jumper cables from DH Labs. Spades on one end and banana plugs on the other.
Two potential combinations. I'll describe what Audioquest recommends. Nordost recommends the opposite (switching the connect described below).
Speaker cable lug (positive) to upper (mid - tweeter) positive speaker terminal.
Speaker cable lug (negative) to lower (bass) negative speaker terminal.
Jumpers complete the positive / negative speaker terminal connection "loop" maintaining polarity. In the above case, use the jumper banana termination on the speaker terminal that has the speaker wire lug attached and the jumper lug termination to the open speaker terminal. This avoids any "lug to lug" connections on the same speaker terminal and should maintain the highest signal transfer integrity between the upper and lower speaker terminals.
Nordost recommends connecting the positive speaker lug to the lower speaker terminal and the negative speaker lug to the upper speaker terminal.
I'm currently trying the "Audioquest" connection recommendation. Once the jumpers break in, I will switch to see if I can determine and differences.
So what do you get?
Initial impressions are better "coherence" between the mid - tweet and bass drivers, an expanded soundstage, better dimensionality and imaging.
You should also try the "traditional" method, that being speaker wires (positive and negative) hooked up to the same (upper or lower) speaker terminals and connect the jumpers to the opposite terminals. Anecdotally, the speaker wire lugs should be connected to the lower (bass) speaker terminals for better bass definition but you should try it both ways.
Please note that if you are still using the original "plate" jumpers supplied with most speakers, do yourself a favor and switch them out with some decent quality speaker wire. They are IMHO garbage.
Have fun.
GG
PS: Theoretically, "bi-wiring" or "bi-amping" will yield better results. However, that is not an option for me at this point and the above may yield equally good results for less money.
Please note that if you are using the original "plate" jumpers supplied with the speaker, swap them out with some decent speaker wire terminated accordingly. IMHO, they are garbage.
Thought I'd share a recent experience. Ordered some custom solid silver jumper cables from DH Labs. Spades on one end and banana plugs on the other.
Two potential combinations. I'll describe what Audioquest recommends. Nordost recommends the opposite (switching the connect described below).
Speaker cable lug (positive) to upper (mid - tweeter) positive speaker terminal.
Speaker cable lug (negative) to lower (bass) negative speaker terminal.
Jumpers complete the positive / negative speaker terminal connection "loop" maintaining polarity. In the above case, use the jumper banana termination on the speaker terminal that has the speaker wire lug attached and the jumper lug termination to the open speaker terminal. This avoids any "lug to lug" connections on the same speaker terminal and should maintain the highest signal transfer integrity between the upper and lower speaker terminals.
Nordost recommends connecting the positive speaker lug to the lower speaker terminal and the negative speaker lug to the upper speaker terminal.
I'm currently trying the "Audioquest" connection recommendation. Once the jumpers break in, I will switch to see if I can determine and differences.
So what do you get?
Initial impressions are better "coherence" between the mid - tweet and bass drivers, an expanded soundstage, better dimensionality and imaging.
You should also try the "traditional" method, that being speaker wires (positive and negative) hooked up to the same (upper or lower) speaker terminals and connect the jumpers to the opposite terminals. Anecdotally, the speaker wire lugs should be connected to the lower (bass) speaker terminals for better bass definition but you should try it both ways.
Please note that if you are still using the original "plate" jumpers supplied with most speakers, do yourself a favor and switch them out with some decent quality speaker wire. They are IMHO garbage.
Have fun.
GG
PS: Theoretically, "bi-wiring" or "bi-amping" will yield better results. However, that is not an option for me at this point and the above may yield equally good results for less money.
Please note that if you are using the original "plate" jumpers supplied with the speaker, swap them out with some decent speaker wire terminated accordingly. IMHO, they are garbage.
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