Speaker Jumpers


Is anyone here experienced with a speaker jumper cables, in particularly Furutech JumperFlux-Spades? I've been told that they are an exceptional cable but need 200 to 300 hrs to break in? 🤔 200 hrs is probably when your ears don't remember how your system sounded previously lol. I've had them for 50 hrs now and with all due respect to Furutech, they sound terrible.  The cheap $0.25 factory metal strips that came with my Klipsch LaScala AL5 speakers sound 100x better than these $560 CDN jumpers. I'm glad I didn't buy the $23,000 CDN jumpers by Ansuz!

So should I stick to the 200 hrs or accept my loss and move on?

fire_water

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. wink

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.

Wait to at least 200 hours! It would not surprise me if they don't break in more after 200 hours, 200 is probably a minimum. Unfortunately, if you can hear the difference... bad then you are likely to be able to hear once broken in... good. 

I recall an old Jay's Audio Lab Youtube about how he hated rhodium plated connectors of any sort because they took so long to break in, acclimate, or whatever you want to call it.

@bigtwin 

While I often agree with you, this time I do not. If you use a cable that is at least as good as your speaker cable, I can hear a difference between a piece of punched steel and some 12 gauge copper.  After a few tests, I bought a demo set from Audio Art and the both the bottom and the top sounded cleaner.  When I got rid of my KEF’s I kept the  jumpers and put them on the Sonus Farber’s and once again I could hear the difference.

You’re moving the signal 2 - 4 inches?  Welcome to the world of audiophile marketing.  IMHO, you have answered your own question.  Let the cable wars begin, again.  😆