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?

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I've been very happy with my Zavfino OCC jumpers at a fraction of the cost of the Furutech.

Just my 2 cents

My main system uses a primaluna dialogue two preamp, primaluna dialogue 6 monoblock amps, and B & W 805 speakers connected with Nordost valhalla and odin cables.  I swapped out the stock jumpers for Nordost reference jumpers.  The improvement was immediately apparent, and it has continued to improve.  

If you do not hear any improvement with the Fururtech jumpers then you might want to try something else.  The change should not be subtle.

@soix I decided to give these jumpers another 150 hrs and then do some more critical listening. 

I am using Silversmith Fidelium speaker cables with the bi-wire adapters, which essentially function as jumpers.  I am not sure how much, if anything, the bi-wire adapters add, but the Fideliums with the adapters--I purchased both at the same time--had a major positive impact on the sound quality of my system.  The Fideliums are the only "expensive" cables I have purchased, all other cables (power, RCA & XLR interconnect, USB, and ethernet) falling in the $175 to $275 range.  My power cables, where they can be switched out, are all Ice Age Audio OFC types, and my digital cables are DH Labs, which had a marked impact on sound quality when I moved from generic USB and ethernet cables.  In all, I have spent about 10% my system cost on cabling.

Of all the things that make no objective difference in the often silly world of audio, speaker jumpers are very high on that list.