Playing Van Halen's 'Jump' might help.

Where can I buy them?

@@velocci6666 Autozone

end put it on 240v😂

Glowplug?? 😂

He answered one of mine and yes, this is a great moment !

@@philippebertrand3820definitely fun to experience!

This is his honest opinion, but notice that he eased any potential concerns of the cable manufacturers that he will continue to spread misinformation on their cables.

​@@YuengsNwingswow.......

Listener bias

Ie, magnepans

​@air870 yes, silver jumpers are an excellent replacement on Magies

GR Danny, is that you?

Listener bias.

@@mpi5850 What makes you say that? How could I have had listener bias when I was 1. skeptical I'd hear any difference, and 2. had no motivation to find one result over the other? I didn't care what the result was, at all.

But you'd have to convert them from DC to AC cables.

Incredible margin ? More like unbelievable rip off. Super low loss special transmission cable used on cell sites are less than $25 a foot. Any jumpers more than 99 cents is a rip off

@@petew2560 The OP was saying the same thing but saying it with class.

Is it possible that exposed copper wire will oxidise and effect transmission . in this case much more cu exposed so potentially worse?

Haha 😅

Manufacturers don’t want that, crossovers are where most manufacturers separate their speakers sound quality. If everyone moved to active crossovers no one would buy the more expensive high end models !

​@@azar3006 It's just a matter of time before the next gen audiophiles will endorse DSP based cross-over filtering for the highest grade systems, because it comes naturally with audio systems going pure digital source and active cross-over can be much better optimized than passive cross-over besides the fact that running an amp directly to a driver is giving much better damping factor.

Can't believe home audio isn't more like car audio where activate crossovers are the norm.

@@thepracticalaudiophile Yes, the most advanced digital audio engineering nowadays is found in cars more than homes unfortunately. But I believe younger audiophiles will be more keen on adapting DSP in their setups to get the extra step in optimizing the system. KEF LS60 is a good example of where things are heading. Convergence made our smart phones kill the calculator, MP3 players layer, gameboy, notepad, calendar, dictaphone, watch and so on. The active speaker of the future, like KEF LS60 will kill the streamer, DAC, CD player/transport, radio, preamp, power amp, interconnects and soon also your voice control device such as Alexa. HDMI will also make sense for support of video streaming and gaming, as the extra cost for a more powerful SOC will make it attractive. So you can get a complete audiophile A/V system with just speakers and display with very minimal wiring.

I throw them in the bed

I hope you're not an elephant.

Paul’s jumper cables are next to his bed.

I agree, but some people just wanna find a reason to hate others. I really think that Paul is a warm and kind man, who is nothing but good vibes. Peace from Denmark. ✌️

@@DubHead69420 I've gotten hate for defending him but that doesn't stop me.

@@DubHead69420 Idiot in this context is simply that somebody disagree with Paul and this person do not want to qualify his disagreement by arguing his case, and resolve to the simplified version of his disagreement with Paul by calling Paul an idiot. I think this reaction comes from Paul's statements that now and then have a lot of audiograde statements that is not based in facts but more in beliefs and Paul's own experience of reality, like in this video where he state "I got pretty good ears", come on, Paul is not a young man anymore, his hearing is at best good for an old man, and that is nothing to write home about, but Paul think his ears are good and he have the full right to think and state so, pease.

@@InsideOfMyOwnMind, that's so messed up! But that's really nice of you! ✌️

You know what they say about opinions are like ****

Too bad the manufacturer didn’t care.

Well, they probably did. the supplied jumpers are of good quality. might be that bi-wire suits my amp setup better. @@stimpy1226

I can't say if Paul is likely to respond, but if thoughts from a retired electronics technician might count, I can say: Premium equipment should (in most aspects) be the least likely to show any change/benefit from bi-wiring the speakers. The factors that bi-wiring makes some changes to are things that a top flight system can be expected to have well in hand, e.g. very low series impedance speaker cables, rock solid amplifier load stability with low output impedance and hopefully speakers with well designed/developed and well behaved/integrated crossovers and drivers. As equipment moves down in spec towards typical home devices and on to dubious products, the probability that bi-wiring can affect behaviors that influence the sound of a system increases. In other words, someone with reasonable speakers might be able to get a small improvement at small cost with bi-wiring, but on a great system there's probably nothing much left for bi-wiring to achieve. Of course there's also the fact that bi-wiring capability is also bi-amping capability (being used to running live sound that's how I tend to view it).

Listener bias

You aren't shorting anything out. You are connecting another section in the speaker. For the life of me I don't understand why someone would want to by wire a speaker unless thay were going to use two amplifiers in a bi amp setup the speakers with two sets of terminals are if you want to by amp not by wire if you are worried that the heavy plate won't carry the current you could make or have made up a short set of interconnect wires, you notice I didn't say jumpers although I feel it would have been correct to say so. I always enjoy all the thoughtful information and comments everyone have a wonderful day and enjoy your systems🎉😊.

@@mikebrookshire3464 It's bi-wire, not by wire.

I'm with you.

tl:dr Using better jumpers is simple and if anything changes it can be expected to be an improvement. The way bi-wiring works is more complex than most people realize, and if anything changes it might be better, but it might actually sound worse. Not a lot of people would consider the actual technical differences - from electrical theory, bi-wiring changes factors that can interact with amplifier and speaker, that an alteration of the terminal jumpers alone has no influence on. So improving jumpers does have limited potential, but if doing so achieves a desirable change (e.g. eliminating a non-linearity in the contact resistance), then eliminating that undesirable characteristic should do something to improve results regardless of any combination of amplifier, cable and speaker in use. However the quality of the terminals could also contribute to there being a fixable problem like this. Bi-wiring is a bit more complex, and alters factors (e.g. parasitic capacitive load on the amplifier, differing current paths at different frequencies and small changes to the application of amplifier damping) that vary considerably and unpredictably in whether they may or may not influence any particular combination of amplifier and speaker. That's a major reason some people try bi-wiring and notice no difference, some are sure they hear an improvement, some say it changed but wasn't better. It's also a good reason for a person to do their own testing if they want to try the potential of bi-wiring - find or borrow some reasonable cables and do comprehensive back-to back comparative listening, if it's better, then get the extra piece of cable. If not, don't bother.

Any difference?

@@tacofortgens3471 For me it is but I'm also using 12 gauge 4 conductor speaker wire with Have Inc. brass banana connectors and I changed out the steel lock nuts out with brass ones too. Sounds better than it did before. 👍

When this popped up on my feed, I initially wondered whether it might be a question about using a heavy cable like automotive jumper cables to connect speakers...

I've heard that system, and unlike what I remembered when these came out in the '80s, I was underwhelmed. To be fair, the total system was still a work in progress of rehabilitation, and my ears were 40 years older. But it's great that Paul's group was giving them another lease on life.

True, possibly the biggest factor. A flat plate which is pretty certain to not be truly flat, and even in ideal circumstances a large contact area requires high contact pressure to deliver the per-area force to ensure a good connection. Not a lot of speakers are fitted with terminals that are ideal to tighten so as to deliver that much force.

They make them available so they can make some easy money.

what, you mean direction controlled perfect surface copper plus plus is just a way to get your money?!

Valid point, what is the material made of, Especially high frequencies are very sensitive to what metal the conductor is made of...

@@tacofortgens3471 On a whim, I decided to dig out my brass jumper plates, and test them on my stack of neodimium magnets, and sure enough it stuck, which I assume introduces the possibility for distortion. To be fair, I tested a spare banana plug too, which is silver direct-plated over beryllium copper, and the screws inside the barrel made it stick to the magnet too. I guess with audio, there's always something else to be thinking about!

It depends on the speakers, and the speakers suplied jumper, the material it is made of. Its not a 1 size fits all..

NO

@@sagi_tech_n_stuff SO?

It’s not April fools anymore..That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Ferrous materials are made of iron or steel, which means magnetic. Copper and brass for example are non-ferrous.

That's not an exception, it's the norm.

You go away and someone takes your place. Life goes on and so does PS Audio sales, it's that simple. You act like if there were no comments (or all negative.) PS Audio would shut down, that would be the furthest from the truth. Paul could turn off the comment section at anytime. There are other audio manufactures that produce KZfaq videos, but the comment section is turned off. Wilson Audio for one, and they still sell $329k speakers without problems.

@@Mark-lq3sbYou are taking a very narrow view. Disdain for the customer might be betrayed in comments like the ones I mentioned, but they are a symptom of a larger mindset. And if it’s allowed to persist in any business, that business will pay a price at best, or won’t survive at worst. Sometimes a business with a sole proprietor or leader who calls all the shots needs to have its attitude called out in stark terms to jolt management into a course correction. And if you believe high end audio manufacturers are inherently long-lived and resilient enterprises, you obviously don’t know the history of the industry very well. Thank you for your well meaning, if profoundly misguided comment. I’ll proceed to forget it as quickly as possible.

@@edd2771 Your head is as big as a quarter panel on a '59 Cadillac Eldorado, and if think PS Audio is going out of business because of this comment section. You are a fool! In fact, you're lucky to have this comment section open, as mentioned before this is the ONLY open comment section when it comes to "high end" audio equipment. So, keep on laughing...