Biwire vs Single/jumper: Cardas Golden Ref

Lacee, does diagonol mean:

Run a wire to, say, upper tweeter on left. Jumper that tweeter to midwoofer on left. run the other wire OUT of the midwoofer. Then do the same on other side?

I've never tried, that, worrying about damaging something or confusing impedences at the amp end (presumably the tweeter and midwoofer have different impedences). But this is just my novice-at-electronics theory...

Art

I took it to mean putting one at the top and one at the bottom, i.e., hot to tweeter hot and ground to bass ground or vice versa. I seem to remember trying this sometime in the past but forget how it worked; let us know what you mean. I am using a very cheap but really surprisingly effective jumper just now, 10 gauge solid copper. As an audiophile I should say that it is 9 9s copper imported from the East at great expense but it is actually Romex, works great on my tri wire S 100s.

Yes, that "diagnol" sounds right. I've read about people doing that successfully.

I've tried making cheap jumpers and never had any luck with them - which surprises me a lot. Never tried Romex though.

Art

It wasn't bad but when I went back to my Cardas jumpers [ $80 each pair] it was a definite improvement; but the Romex was better than the ones you usually get with most speakers. Another attempt to go cheap fails. The Spendor S 100s have provision for tri wiring. The best arrangement I have found for them so far is the main cable to the treble posts, putting spade jumpers between the bass and midrange, and then connecting bananas from the treble post to the bass post, so the midrange gets the signal last. Not what I expected but seems to work; another thing that surprises me is that ON MY SPEAKERS connecting to the bass posts and going to the treble last seems to give more high end than going to the treble first; too much in fact.

By the way great cables these Cardas Golden Reference .. I'm enjoying them (single wire) between Parasound Halo JC1's and Thiel CS 2.4 and I'm finding them a bit forward than my previous Analysis Plus Big Silver Ovals but with better clean highs and mids and a super tuneful bass I'm starting to love since I missed it so tuneful with Silver Ovals.

Happy New Year to everyOne!