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Speaker wiring question

My first pair of speakers with dual binding posts. My question is weather or not it’s ok to connect one of the speaker wires to the positive or negative on the high and one on the low or should the positive and neg be connected to the low or high side posts.  This is with the shorting brackets attached.  Hope this wasn’t too confusing
metman
n80
1,227 posts
 
I'm guessing it doesn't matter if the bridging brackets are attached. Just wondering why you would want to do that?
freediver
585 posts
 
Keep connections as designed on bottom end & you will get much better performance if you swap out those horrible jumper bars for some real cable jumpers...
erik_squires
5,268 posts
 
Not much of a difference. :) Just don't cross the streams.


n80
1,227 posts
 
I would be curious to see if anyone ha measured the resistance (etc) across stock bridge bars compared to jumpers.

Also, for my own benefit, is there any downside to making jumpers out of the same speaker wire I am using? In other words, for my low end system I bought 100% copper, low oxygen 12 awg speaker wire. I guess the questions are 1) Would it hurt anything to use it as a jumper? 2) Is there any chance it would improve anything (in low end Polk Audio 3 way towers)?
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