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VR4 HSE Silver Jumpers?

I was reading throught the Von Schweikert VR4 manual this weekend and noticed they recommend silver speaker wire to tighten the bass. I'm using MAS Signature Hybrid speaker wire which is a single strand of silver wire with stranded OFC copper. I presently run my speaker wire to the M/T enclosure, and then run a jumper to the woofer. I know VSA suggests bi-wiring, but in my set-up this is not feasible. I actually tried bi-wiring with Canare 4S11 at one point, and compared it to using jumpers, and I didn't discern a difference.

Anyway, the question...

Does anyone think changing my jumpers from an all-copper quad geometry wire to a solid core silver wire would make a difference in the bass response?
tvad
tvad OP
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No, I don't agree that it's the difference between true or false, fact or fiction, science or voodoo. That supposition suggests any approach to sound reproduction other than your approach is wrong. To you that's true, because you dogamatically refuse to see the benefit of any other method. I prefer to see the approaches as different methods, neither being more true than the other. Just as I view religions as being different approaches to the same goal: none being more correct than another. The simple fact you admit many of your music sounds like crap on your system is proof enough of your method not being correct for me, but I don't consider it as the "truth" or "the way". Sorry.
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ozzy62
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After wading through the muck, here is what I offer.

I owned VR4 Silvers years ago. I started out with cables from the amp to the woofer module with jumpers to the top. Sounded good to me. But it was only when I bi-wired them that the sound became truly excellent. So I think that you are limiting the performance of your VR4s by not biwiring, forget that jumper business.

Oz
tvad OP
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Oz, thanks for your post, and if my set-up allowed for bi-wiring, I'd do
just as you suggest. Unfortunately, I have very long speaker runs with
the cabling running through walls, and a crawlspace. Therefore, I'm
restricted to jumpers. Frankly, if my set-up allowed, I'd probably bi-
amp with a tube/SS combo. BTW, Von Schweikert recommends jumping
from the T/M module down to the woofers, not the other way.

Bottom line, I'm trying some silver jumpers and not noticing much
difference over my old Canare 4S11 jumpers, but the silver has only
been installed for three days.
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