Speaker Jumpers

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

I give up.  The mids are now muddy and a saturated mess. These jumpers are temperamental and have been testing my patience. Can someone  plesae help me with this? According to AI, for what it's worth, "Furutech JumperFlux-S jumpers typically require 200-300+ hours of continuous playback for lower mids to fully settle and gain coherence in your Accuphase/Klipsch setup". This is painful! 

So to check my sanity I reverted back to the Klipsch factory strips and the mids are qell defined and everything is coherent.  

@fire_water 

"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."

Yeah, that’s why I always say "break-in, shmake-in".

"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"

That’s a sudden change of heart! Did Furutech PM you and offer you a stipend to change your opinion? Or maybe you’re a corporate mole planted here to influence subscriber’s buying habits?

I could go on and on about how the equipment we play our music on is more reliable at reproducing the sources we listen to than our ears are at hearing it. Also, a host of physiological influences in our own bodies and the environmental conditions around us that causes what our auditory systems perceive to change from one minute to the next!

Just sayin’.

@faustuss  sometimes I feel it's my components or my speakers that are giving me all this grief. I don't know what to think anymore. With these cables they seem to sound good when everything has been warmed up but then bloated after long periods of listening.