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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Totally agree, makes sense to me. As a long time Magneplanar owner I am well aware of doing speaker modifications to get the most out of what the manufacturer provided us. In some cases Magneplanar even encouraged their owners to experiment with their product, and ended up copying many owners upgrades and the X upgrade was born. Hopefully you don't need to do any soldering and can just flip some o washers from one set to the other. Actually, while you are in there maybe you should rewire them with that Ansuz stuff. cheeky

 

I removed the terminal cover and was alarmed with what I saw. The wires themselves and worse, the connectors are HORRIBLY cheap.  So I left everything the way they were,  reinstalled the terminal cover and reverted back to the factory metal strips. The Furutech JumperFlux-S jumpers are now for sale! There is no point in upgrading a jumper without upgrading the inner core.  Maybe I should look at an aftermarket crossover.  That said, the Furutech JumperFlux-S are beautifully made and did balance the sound but the sound wasn't for me. 

Here is a video of Danny (GR Research) ripping apart a Cornwall- I haven't seen it yet, and I didn't see one of the Lascalas. He usually talks trash about everybody's product so I expect he will say the same, but he does know crossovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKZh_CeNRlk

So I've been listening to a few of  my reference albums -  Bobo Stensen Trio's Cantando,  Tord Gustavsen Trio's The Other Side, Joao Paulo Esteves da Silva's The River with my Ansuz X2 and factory Klipsch metal jumpers intact and the music is once again fantastic and enjoyable! What a huge difference! The Audience FrontRow USB has been sold and my Furutech JumperFlux-S are on the market. It's funny how I circled back to my original USB and factory Klipsch jumpers. 

XLR's are next

Thanks for all your input!

"Speaker Jumpers” -not much of impact in pareto chart of important variables! c’mon, microOhms difference btw different kind, unless there is a really bad one to fix!