Speaker Jumpers

Yes, to give the jumpers a fair shot, you should stick to the 200 hrs before moving on.  If they still sound like crap after 200 hrs, you should definitely move on.  Down through the years, whenever I've used jumpers (including now), I've always opted to use jumpers made by the same manufacturer as my speakers cables, and that method has never failed me yet.  Happy listening. 

I guess I was reduced into buying these Furutech jumpers because of a custom Furutech power cord with Furutech connectors I had made to replace the factory cord for my Innuos Pulsar Streamer.  And the improvement on SQ was immediate and immense.  Not to mention Furutech connectors are beautiful. At this point maybe I should honor the 200 hour break-in time. 

Moving forward I'll only purchase cables from reputable dealers offering a full refund. In fact there's a manufacturer here in Canada using Furutech connectors who actually offers 30 days on his products. XLR cables are next once I sort out these jumpers.

Why can't you connect the wires for the mids and highs directly to the LF terminal internally so everything shares only 1 set of terminals? This way there is no need for jumpers.

*I should be clear about something.  When I said the USB sounded 100x better I should have said that I'm 100% assertive that one sounded better than the other.  It's it better, what's better? But it hit all the check marks that I prefer including  PRAT,  authority behind the notes, detailed highs, dynamics and rich smooth mids. The Ansuz USB did this better than the Audience USB in my system and to my ears.

Recommend you connect your main wires to the HF inputs, then jumper to the LF.  Yes, as stated, the best jumpers are the same as your speaker wires.  Not hard to make or source, generally.  I have always found matching jumpers far superior to the speakers' stock metal stamped jumpers.  Since you have the Furutech, sure let them break in.

Looking at these specific jumpers,

• a-conductor: non-magnetic and super cryogenically treated PCOCC wire, 68strands x 0.127mm x 7

they seem like ok copper wire.  what are you speaker cables??

As others mentioned your jumper should be the same as the speaker cables, but to answer your question rhodium takes a long time. But take pride in knowing you can hear the difference between different 4" sections of speaker cable, on half your speaker, unlike some people here. 

This is from Dave who owns Zenwave cables: 

Teflon takes a really long time, although you may see large changes quickly it’ll take 500+ hours to get to the final destination. I’ve found most people don’t hear the later changes but some do and they tell me the exact same thing about how the burn in changes the sound, which is more than a little bit telling...

Litz wire sounds horrible at first as there is a ton of dielectric surface area to burn-in but the enamel insulation burns in faster vs teflon.

Shipping, or even moving a cable causes the need for more burn-in, shippping might take 24 hours to recover, moving a cable might only take a couple hours to go back to the way it was.

Most brand new components sound horrible for the first few hours, and like most things they rapidly improve but it still takes hundreds of hours to sound their best... but you never know how much the unit has been tested at the factory... those who build their own components are very familiar with how bad they are at first.

Parts with rhodium plating take much longer vs gold plating, and they do an odd thing in that they go back and forth, one minute they may sound fine, the next they sound dark and closed-in... this goes on for a long time and is very annoying.

Anything that I sell gets a good bit of burn-in either in my system or on an AudioDharma cable cooker.

I do think acclimation is an issue but it doesn’t take that long for a listener to adjust and it doesn’t explain burn-in, and it doesn’t account for the fact that MANY of my customers describe what they hear wrt burn-in in almost exactly the same way.