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?
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. |
I was wrong. The Furutech JumperFlux-S actually sound really good! On Feb 5 I made up my mind that the Furutech JumperFlux-S were wrong for me so I reverted back to the original Klipsch metal strips. But the following day I switched back to the Furutech's and left everything playing for 36 hours while I was away at work for my 24 hour shift thinking I had nothing to lose. Wow! These jumpers have probably broken-in now. Compared to the Klipsch factory strips, the Furutech jumpers are: smoother and more resolved Cleaner highs at higher SPL Richer bass + mids PRAT intact, but more sorted and without edge or glare * I honestly think these speakers need better binding posts so I'm looking at Furutech Furutech FT-867 NCF(R) Series |
