Need help with biwiring and jumpers.
I just bought a used set of Platinum Audio Studio 3 used off of ebay. They come with twin sets of jumpers for biwiring. I don't have an amp capable of that (Onkyo 898) so I'll be running em in "standard" mode. Problem is I don't see any jumpers on these speakers. Sooooo how do I make these biwired speakers un on single wire? Do I have to make a set of jumpers? Do they sell small one pre-made?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Da Worfster
Thanks Wooch and thanks all...
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Originally Posted by Woochifer
As others have said, a short speaker cable run connecting the two sets of binding posts is all you need. In fact, that's what my dealer uses with their demo units. They just cut a couple of 6" speaker cable runs and terminate them with spades, and use those as jumpers. (the main speaker cables are connected using banana plugs, so it's a very neat and tidy connection)
The spacing between binding posts can vary quite a bit from speaker to speaker, and you want to make sure that the jumper is a tight fit with nothing touching between the + and - terminals. So, I'm not sure if a generic jumper would fit anyway.
Thanks for the love folks. I kinda figured that's the way to do it but I wasn't sure. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something ignorant.
Da Grateful Worfster
What I actually wound up doin!!!
The set of speakers I got also had a set of 10 foot Monster M biwire cables thrown in with em. I said "what the hell" let's see what this sounds like all biwired and sech. Well, I tried. The monsterously large spades on the receiver end of these cables wouldn't fit into the 898's speaker out slots and I didn't want to cut them up because they're cool looking and I might sell them on ebay later...
So it was off to Rat Shack to find some premade jumpers. I had one jumper included with the speaker so I bought that with me to show the guy at R.S. Of course he had no idea as to what I was talking about. Had never heard of bi-wiring and had never seen a jumper before... Sigh... I wound up buying some speaker cable and some crimpon spades and making the jumpers myself. C'est la vie I suppose...
Thanks for the advice folks.
Da Worfster :p