Von scheikert VR4jr what are you using ?

I am confused. If I am bi-wiring should I remove the jumper plate between the two bass terminals if I am connected to the lower one?

Jdodmead

...it would seem so.

As I understand the posting, the plates are there only to hook up to the supplied umbilical... which is still another ten or so inches above the "mystery posts", (must have been a shortage of wire somewhere), and it supplies the upper module. So in the case of biwiring, removing the plates seems to me to be the way to go, as the other half of the bi-wire hooks to the top module.. eliminating the umbilical.

Of course that smacks of an oversight, or flaw in the engineering… like a “work around”, or afterthought. I mean if both drivers are internally wired together, then why not continue that wiring path within the cabinet up to the connection of the UC output on the bass unit? Safer that way. Cleaner looking too, having less stuff sticking out of the rear of the bass cabinet.

Too bad they didn't simply do away with one set of posts on the bass module, huh? That's the issue entirely, I think... and still one set of standard speaker wires would hook up the JR's along with the umbilical using the then, one set, of posts... and likely not require VR4 - JR (or possibly other VR owners), to have to get special ordered bi-wires for their speakers, as some will make that stretch, but not too many make the stretch from very bottom to very top. Though I was told MIT had pretty long tails on their bi-wires. It’d sure save some money in time & materials too…. Not to mention the time spent answering hook up queries, consequently all would benefit.. or maybe an upgrade or mod?

Hint! Hint!

I'll be dogged! Looks like I got a set of speaker wires for sale... perhaps.. or my HT system is about to get an upgrade in speaker cables…. Or I’ll just shotgun them using the two sets of bi-wires… maybe. Something about it just doesn’t jive IMHO. I'll try it that way this weekend, though

Jdodmead
You should keep the plate, that will serve as the connection for the top woofer. Enjoy

Ive tryed a couple krells on my vr-4HSE I had with dissapionting sound. Skip them.

Jdodmead,
No definitely do not use the jumper plates. As long as you are biwiring to the lowest posts on the woofer cabinet and the posts on the mid/tweeter cabinet, you are doing what VSR wants.

The "top woofer" is not connected in any way to the upper posts on the woofer cabinet. Try it and see!

VSR says the concept of the datalink is so that, temporarily, a user may use a single run of speaker cable connected preferably to the mid/tweeter cabinet, through the datalink so the signal exits out the upper posts on the woofer cabinet, and then through the jumper plates to the lower posts, which connect to both woofers.
Jeesh, I'd rather save a few $$$ and do away with the datalink and the unused posts!