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Using spade jumpers....and spade speaker cables.....which should be closest to the speaker ........the jumper spade or the speaker wire spade...In other words do you lay the jumper spade over the speaker wire spade or vice versa .....should the speaker wire spade go low to high.....or high to low.......or whichever you want to highlight ? Thanks.
darrylhifi

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there are many ways to hook up jumpers/speaker wires to a set of bi-wired speakers. i have seen the speaker cables hooked up to the tweeters with jumpers to the midrange/woofer, or speaker cables hooked up to the midrange/woofer then jumpered to the tweeters, and i have even seen the negative speaker cable hooked up to the tweeter then jumpered to the midrange/woofer while the positive speaker cable is hooked up to the midrange/woofer then jumpered to the tweeter (and vice versa). I did ask a couple of speaker manufacturers about the different ways of using jumper cables and the sonic improvements thay have seen while attending the he2003 show. Overall, each one had a preference for their speakers but they also said to try it for yourself, you should be the judge. While discussing this topic with different manufacturers, I also got an earfull of what type of jumper to use. Some indicated not to use cable at all but to use a silver posts, another gave me an 8 guage flat copper wire unterminated. IMO, it is best that you try different things on your speakers and what works best to you, go with it.