Just because you're a big believer in speaker cables and power cords doesn't mean you're not absolutely wrong and have been taken on a snake oil ride this whole time. Which you have. Stop wasting money on things that don't affect the sound one single bit. Room acoustics, speaker placement, EQ, and the speakers themselves. As long as the OFC cables are thick enough for the length of the run, that's it. Anyone who says otherwise is not an audiophile and doesn't understand physics or the science of sound. Period.
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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No. where is you buy them from?
there is a lot of fake furutech stuff out there. on top of that not everything furutech makes is sonically good. I have a lot of experience with furutech. have bought some of furutech bad stuff. and learned the hard way getting fake ones when I didn’t buy from authorized dealer. dunno which you have been hit with. break in after about the first 24hrs should be a positive sound slope.
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@squared80 who are you addressing? Let's put our subjectives or our own perceptions about sound aside. There's a science in metallurgy and that includes cables. Are you suggesting that there is no difference in gold, silver, copper, aluminum, wrought iron, cold rolled steel etc? Tell that to an electrical technician or a structural engineer. Cables make a difference - huge or subtle- you have to find what works best for your system and for your taste. I personally witnessed how a custom Furutech power cord I'm now using for my Innuos Pulsar beautifully transformed the sound. I witnessed how much better my older Ansuz X2 USB cable out performed the newer and more expensive Audience FrontRow USB. And I recently witnessed how Furutech JumperFlux-S jumpers underwhelming performed vs the Klipsch factory spkr jumpers. Why would I make this up? This is what I'm hearing. Have you ever looked at spkr or amplifier binding posts internally and the wiring terminals that are used? Problems probably start here followed by lousy spkr cables. Room acoustics is definitely a huge factor and I agree with you here. |
https://www.audioquest.com/products/rocket-88-single-biamp-speaker-cable-na Or you can use something like these cables above. I have the "Castle Rock" version which have been out of production for some time. The "treble" wires are smaller gauge than the "Bass" wires. The versions going down to Rocket 11 are more affordable. Agreed about the nastiness of the Klipsch speaker terminals. Just went inside my cabinets to re-tighten the terminals which are ludicrously fussy to work with. |
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