Replacing jumpers

I don't biwire my speakers and am using the standard jumpers that come with the speakers. What is the consensus on replacing those with some quality speaker wire? Obviously it is easy and cheap to do, but would like to hear people's opinions anyhow.

but I replaced the "stock jumpers" on my Silverline Sonationa's by just running my speaker wire from the bottom post - top post. But these are DIY 24awg solid silver encased in 20awg teflon, non-teminated [just bare wire exposed at termination point]. So it's pretty EZ and painless to strip off an additional 2.5" of teflon whereas even if your cables aren't terminated you're still talking about cutting into the jacketing. The best connector is no connector.

...Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! And/or anything else I may have missed!!! What's it been? A couple of sets of them days at least? Nice to see you back...

Not only that, not only that...I actually agree with you...

jimHJJ(...how's things otherwise...)

My local dealer just takes short (~6") sections of silver cabling and terminates them with spades. Would work just as well without any termination. They go with spades because of how frequently they switch out those homemade jumpers in the demo room.

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...Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! And/or anything else I may have missed!!!

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And you too Jim!

I've been real active with my running and keeping up with my three young boys. In fact, till we moved from the loft to this house I had boxed the stereo up. Now it's been relegated to the master bedroom. But at least I can listen again [without prying fingers about].

I resigned my moderator position over at AudioKarma. I didn't feel I was putting in enough time to serve the members and there were just too many issues with the adminstration that I didn't agree with so I quit. I'm happier just to be a regular again. Man, this place is dead! I can't even get anyone to blast me for using silver cables! I miss the old gang, that was fun.

Keep in touch. MikE a promise kept

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I can't even get anyone to blast me for using silver cables!

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Why would anybody in their right mind use silver cables.:confused:

Wires are wires, it doesn't make a difference..just go with a bigger copper wire.

And spades:confused: What's wrong with you:confused:


There...happy?

Welcome back.

Cheers, John

Now that's more like it! :)

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Man, this place is dead! I can't even get anyone to blast me for using silver cables! I miss the old gang, that was fun.

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...you've caught us in a fallow period...ZZZzzz...it's off-season, but there are still some fireworks now and again...ZZZzzz, snort, drool...although nothing approaching the days when the epicenter revolved around eyespy, mtrycrafts and JR...even most of the supporting cast of characters have migrated for parts unknown...on a sad note, conjecture is Woodman left for the big test-bench in the sky...

Nowadays we seem to be experiencing a spate of "what's the best_____(insert product here)"-type of inquiries...not too many extremists left...in fact most of the recent episodes of unpleasantness weren't even about wire...the gravitational pull of a MOTR mindset seems to have trumped all.

Then, of course, there are morons like me...

jimHJJ(...stick around, always a few laughs to be had...)

You can get copper ribbon jumpers from Mapleshade for $20. They don't look like much, but they work well, and they're inexpensive to try.

i did it with my jm labs cobalts.had a couple of pieces of ixos speaker cable and used it.so extra cost was zero.cant say it made a large difference,but did not hurt.

thanks
bill

Thanks guys, that's kind of what I thought. I have plenty of extra speaker wire laying around, so it won't cost anything to try it. I'll just see what happens. I expect nothing, but what the hell...

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Thanks guys, that's kind of what I thought. I have plenty of extra speaker wire laying around, so it won't cost anything to try it. I'll just see what happens. I expect nothing, but what the hell...

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I wouldn't bother, myself. But it won't hurt to use wire, except for the aggravation. Even silver wire won't hurt anything beyond it costing something. But there's no evidence it will actually help anything, either, unless your connections were corroded or dirty--but then, the solution is to clean them!

[QUOTE=Resident Loseron a sad note, conjecture is Woodman left for the big test-bench in the sky...
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Is this accurate? Wow, that's sad, indeed! The old dude really had some strong opinions and his posts made a lot of sense, even if I didn't always agree. He was a worthy opponent. I wondered what happened to him.

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Originally Posted by Mwalsdor_cscc_edu

but I replaced the "stock jumpers" on my Silverline Sonationa's by just running my speaker wire from the bottom post - top post. But these are DIY 24awg solid silver encased in 20awg teflon, non-teminated [just bare wire exposed at termination point]. So it's pretty EZ and painless to strip off an additional 2.5" of teflon whereas even if your cables aren't terminated you're still talking about cutting into the jacketing. The best connector is no connector.

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I did the same thing on my B & W's. Worked great.

Laz

[QUOTE=musicoverall][QUOTE=Resident Loseron a sad note, conjecture is Woodman left for the big test-bench in the sky...
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Is this accurate? Wow, that's sad, indeed! The old dude really had some strong opinions and his posts made a lot of sense, even if I didn't always agree. He was a worthy opponent. I wondered what happened to him.

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...a question to him some time ago...ericl responded with that sad bit of guarded speculation...nothing really concrete, but it seems to be accurate by all accounts...

jimHJJ(...and he is certainly conspicuous by his absence...)

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...a question to him some time ago...ericl responded with that sad bit of guarded speculation...nothing really concrete, but it seems to be accurate by all accounts...

jimHJJ(...and he is certainly conspicuous by his absence...)

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I remember he had posted that he smoked cigarettes for many years and was no longer able to play the saxophone. Hopefully, he's able to honk on it now wherever he is. And despite anyone's beliefs about heaven and hell, I'm sure he's arguing vehemently with someone somewhere about ABE's! :)