Jumpers for Spendors

I would definitely recommend replacing those stock jumpers. I had fatwyre.com make a pair of jumpers for my Spendor 1/2Es and my results were very good (and not too expensive). I am using Tara Labs Space & Time Phase II speaker cables, which are rather modest in price, and I had Fatwyre make jumpers out of the same cable.

The new jumpers made a major improvement in upper frequency reproduction. I should mention that it took many hours for the jumpers to settle - so don't expect great result right out of the gate. IMHO, spending $150 on jumpers to match your speaker cables will be money well spent.

I have a pair of 1/2e speakers and when I purchased my Alpha Core Goertz MI-2 Veracity speaker cables I also purchased their copper jumpers ($20). I noticed an improvement over the brass jumpers, but I'm not sure I'd spend $150 on this.

My intellect tells me that those thin mystery-metal jumpers should sound bad, but my ears tell me that they're indistinguishable from cables. And, I've done all the swaps, tests, etc.

I own the S8e and have on order Cardas CLJP copper jumper plates due to arrive soon. BTW my speaker cables are Cardas too.

Good Luck!*>)

Hey Kw6,
How does the Cardas jumpers sound? Have you tried
bi-wiring your spendors? Currently I am using the soundstring cables on the tweeter section of the biwire. And for the woofer section I am using the audioquest forest but I am looking to upgrade these. Do you have any suggestion? I though about using cardas jumpers?