Speaker wiring question

I'm guessing it doesn't matter if the bridging brackets are attached. Just wondering why you would want to do that?

I would be curious to see if anyone ha measured the resistance (etc) across stock bridge bars compared to jumpers.

Also, for my own benefit, is there any downside to making jumpers out of the same speaker wire I am using? In other words, for my low end system I bought 100% copper, low oxygen 12 awg speaker wire. I guess the questions are 1) Would it hurt anything to use it as a jumper? 2) Is there any chance it would improve anything (in low end Polk Audio 3 way towers)?

I tried what I mentioned above. Made two pairs of jumpers out of the same speaker wire I'm using for the speakers, good quality, good size. Put banana connectors on one end for the upper posts. Just used bare wire for the bottom posts. Will get some set screw spades for the bottom posts when I get a chance (hard to find them cheap the way you can bananas).

Did it make a difference? Broader sound stage, brighter roomier highs, tighter bass. Really? I don't know. Probably not. I'm the type of guy that would swear that my car runs better after I wax it. ;-)

@metman :

"but I also used different Interconnects and am wondering if that was the reason."

Never change more than one variable at a time!