Here I bring up another question relating to cables. Yup copper and silver..
As we all know removing the brass jumper plates on the connections panel of a speaker and replacing for wire gives huge improvements.
I use chord carnival classic cable from my amp to speakers (love it) And I use some custom twisted Gale cable to replace the jumpers (I twisted 3 lots of gale xl105 together, 4 times for the 4 links).
I know that the chord sounds far far better than the Gale.
So do I replace the jumper connections with Chord Carnival Classic so its the same as my speaker cable or shall I go for the Chord Carnival Silver Plus (hmm..silver..harsh!?!)?
I might do that. I'd only require 1metre of each cable so its not that pricey. £8 altogether for a metre of each.
Shopping list before I go university in 9 days: -That cable -Pay off rest of new speakers (still to come) -Get some stainless steel spike shoes for my stands..are they needed? I dont wanna annoy everyone else at uni. -Get some kiln dried sand to fill the stands with -Jeans and shirt
Gee, and all along I thought the spikes were to penetrate the carpeting and provide a solid level point. Of course the spikes could sit on 8 pence pieces for wooden trod-planks.
You mean the spikes aren't meant solely for sending one screaming from the room hopping on one leg with blood dripping from the big toe of the foot connected to the other leg?
As to your query, some would say that there's little point in using a better cable than your speaker cable as jumpers. Some would say otherwise. In this case, I'd use Carnival Classic since it's easy to use as a jumper. The Carnival Silver Plus is an exemplary cable and far better than Carnival Classic - no worries about the silver plating. However, its construction doesn't lend itself to jumpering since it is a 6-way helix of solid cores and really needs termination at both ends (rather than just tinning. If you wanted to use a better cable to jump with to future-proof yourself, try to get a dealer to be nice and give you or charge you for half a metre of Odyssey which is what I usually use as a jumper in the shop.