I. Design and Performance:
The usual jumpers that come with bi-wirable speakers—brass plates or Magnepan's U-plug—cause a most unfortunate degradation in sound quality. (Incidentally, half the improvement that people hear when bi-wiring is due to getting rid of these poor-sounding jumpers.) To replace these jumpers, we offer, at low cost, a set of very thin copper ribbon jumpers. This ribbon is identical to the conductors used in our state-of-the-art $1600 Omega Mikro speaker cables. The difference you hear is a startling tribute to how much sonic improvement can be gained from only three inches of first-rate conductor.
II. Installation Tips:
- Attach by slipping edge of ribbon under one side of binding post nut.
- If you're using Clearview unterminated speaker cable: loosen binding post nut, bend cable end into a "J" and hand it on the binding post, slide the ribbon in under the J-hook from the side of the binding post (the ribbon should be flat and parallel to the speaker back panel), slide the ribbon in until it touches the binding post, then tighten the binding post nut so that it firmly clamps the ribbon and the J-hook in place.
- We recommend, for first trial, attaching the speaker cable to the lower (woofer) binding posts. The directionality markings on our ribbon assumes you’re using the cable at the woofer binding post; "W" on the ribbon means woofer end and "T" means tweeter.
- It's worth trying the speaker cable connected to the tweeter post and reversing the ribbon direction. On some speakers, this orientation may sound better. Only your ears can tell.
