Am I Nuts or What?


This goes against everything I thought to be true, but I compared sound quality of my Acoustic Energy ae2s with the stock wire jumper vs a pair of high quality Transparent and Apex jumpers and found the ol stock wire connector to be superior when using my non bi wired Yamamura m4000 or S/W Maestro speaker cables. This just seems to go against the grain of what should be a better setup, considering the cost of the Tranparent and Apex jumpers.
justlisten
I should claify my post. I am using standard stereo speaker cables, 1 Yamamura the other Straight Wire, and have 2 types of Jumpers, 1 Transparent, the other Apex, into a biwirable speaker. No matter which speaker cable or jumper combo I use, this speaker sounds better without the use of the aftermarket jumpers. The little wire that came with the speakers, creating a link between the high and lo freq posts sound superior to use with either jumper.

Sorry to confuse this issue with different speaker cables and jumpers, the bottom line of this is that the speakers sound best with the stock wire jumper, which surprises me.
Is it so hard to believe that the designer(s) of the speaker knew exactly what they were doing? Trust your ears.
Yes, you are nuts. Not because you hear what you hear, but because you are listening to 2" pieces of wire in a vain attempt to get some musical "value". We all have the same disease; if you could listen to money we'd all just break out the $100 bills and have a party.
Dekay has nailed it. Audiophilia Nervosa is a zero-sum game. The obsession will always seek the path of least resistance, striking often at the foundations of common sense.