This works! I recently bought some Q Acoustics 3050 floorstanders which have bi-wiring connectors (not the 3050i which do not). The jumper plates that came with the speakers were silver-plated stamped metal, and after watching this video I thought "what do I have to lose?" I already thought the speakers sounded great, so if this made them even better I was all for that. I used the Amazon US link that you provided above and received the new jumpers yesterday. They are made really well! Gold-plated spade connectors and really thick - I mean really thick (8AWG). Connected them up and there is definitely a difference. Clearer highs, more pronounced bass. So glad I watched this video and tried this - cheers Marty!🍻

You really gotta do a blind test to remove any expectation bias (placebo).

Finally someone that explained & demonstrated, enjoyed your video...

Great video. I will replace the jumpers on my Warfedale Diamond 11.5 to 8 gauge wires and hope for the best. Keep up the fun presentation! Cheers from Mauritius

I followed this tip yesterday with the set of 9.1’s in my loft setup. There is a difference.

I heard a very significant difference in smoothness and clarity thru my Grado Sr80e headphones. Can't wait to get home and make some jumpers!

can i apply this on my amplifiers a and b channels

Here we go again... And make sure that you align your speakers with magnetic north, don't play DSD audio when Mercury is in retrograde, and put lithium batteries in all your remotes to maximize audio quality.

Based on my experience, my opnion is bi-wiring does not significantly affect sound quality. The signal is still transmitted in the same way, regardless of whether you connect the high frequencies (HF) and low frequencies (LF) to separate terminals, or use a diagonal wiring method. However, bi-amping can potentially improve sound quality. This is because you can use two different amplifiers, each optimized for a specific frequency range. For example, you could use an amplifier that is good at reproducing midrange and high frequencies for the HF terminals, and an amplifier that is good at reproducing low frequencies for the LF terminals. Ultimately, the best way to improve the sound quality of your speakers is to experiment and see what works best for you. There is no right or wrong answer. I also spoke to an engineer from a UK HiFi brand, and he mentioned that it is difficult to say definitively whether bi-wiring has any benefits. He said that there is not much evidence to suggest that it can improve sound quality, but more research is needed

Sorry, a bit late for this demo but I recently changed over some spring loaded connectors for banana plugs and found when I went to solder the wires for the crossover to the new connectors the solder would not take so I had to file the gold coating of. Would that coating stop a proper connection for the speakers .

Where did the speaker wires be connected when they on 'standard wire' and 'jumper cables', hf or lf post?

Just replace my biwired Audio Quest cables for Canare Quad and I'm using the spades for the lowers and self made jumpers for the highs and as a result i have a six wires configuration on my speakers I'm satisfied with the results

Gracias por mostrar tu experiencia, lo haré en mis wharfedale diamond 12.3, estoy ansioso de llegar a casa 😅saludos desde santiago chile 🇨🇱

Totally agree....the metal jumpers suck. I replaced em with Canare 6in 11awg jumper cables and gave my system significantly better dimension and clarity. A worthwhile tweak.

I have a problem for you, that I can't rightly figure out... If you can help I'd appreciate it. I have 3 pairs of speakers so 6 in total, all hooked into a fairly decent sony shelf stereo with only left and right channel with subwoofer... A while ago I found resources like this and tried doing my speakers in what they called some combination of series and parallel at the same time. It seemed to work fine but I recently moved stuff around and didn't work out how they had been wired so I just redid them simply with all 3 pairs done in left and right channel. Wired from receiver to the 2 smaller left speakers then from them to the large house speaker. For both sides, left/right. I don't have banana clips and only have the kind you push the bare end of the wire into with the little clip to open the hole... on the house speakers and receiver.. the 2 sets of bookshelf speakers are both decent enough and are wired without any connectors. Is there truly a proper way to wire them that you can suggest. I've been using all 6 speakers with this stereo for years and get good sound from them and the stereo can seem to handle them. It's been about 15 years so I'm not worried about damaging the receiver itself, other than it's older now.

Finally got round to wiring them up this way after a disastrous attempt at bi-wiring which seemed to take something away from the wharfedale 12.1 speakers, they just lacked the top end and didn't sound the same I thought I'd damaged them, so I thought I'll give that a go. Thankyou so much the sound is far better and back to how they originally sounded, Wishbone Ash's Pheonix is phenomenal, and uriah heeps the spell and paradise from demons and wizards the good and evil voices are split and clear. One happy bunny now 🎉 And I tried before and after and there is a definite difference

I’ve got wharfdale 12:1s and QED jumper cables I did notice a difference more clarity thanks for the video Marty 👍🏻

Thanks, great video. I have made my own jumper cables but have not yet decided if I can hear a difference. However, another option would be to remove the jumper platers and just take the cable through both terminals. There would be a longer piece of bare cable and you would have to be careful the + & - didn’t touch but this would cut out the jumper cables or plates and the banana plugs which all could possibly degrade sound. Just a thought.

I hear a definite improvement with the biwiring, not so much difference between the biwire and wire jumps. I've just biwired some old Tannoys and absolutely get an improvement in the mid and hi frequencies. I'm just itching now to remove the cross over elememt entirely and bi amp the speakers, the sound should really open up doing that. Good vid!

Hi. That was very funny to start a KZfaq video. 🇵🇹 also nice drawings/lettering with the comments.

I can't believe it but I actually did hear a difference thank you

I did this a while back exactly how you did on Bowers & Wilkins 607 S2 Anniversary Edition Bookshelf Speakers & definitely heard a difference. The clarity improved on what I thought was amazing already, so much so the wife noticed too & that's rare. I also posess the same Marantz kit 6007 cd & amp as yours. I highly recommend anyone do this.

I actually just received a Cambridge AXA35 integrated amp and Wharfedale 220's. It's a modest system for a small space, but works and sounds well for my needs. I initially hooked it up, and did my best to position the speakers for best sound along with using a modest RCA cord and pre-made banana plug terminated speaker cables 16AWG. The cables are 6 ft. each. I didn't make any alteration to the speakers initial condition with the provided jumper plates. The system sounded great with finer and well-rendered music (audiophile recordings on you tube). I am also using an IFI blue tooth receiver with a modern smartphone as the source (which actually sounds pretty clean). I noticed that rock music and poorly recorded music wasn't as forgiving using the system especially without a subwoofer. I do prefer voice and instrument recordings which suits me fine. I was a little concerned when I listened to Willie Nelson's Stardust which was very familiar to me. While the voice and center stage were superb it was lacking subtle instrumentation I knew was there like quick light drumming. I started fooling with all types of settings with both the amp and phone to no avail short of turning on pseudo surround sound in the phone which colored the music, but brought out the more subtle sounds. I decided at that point I'd might as well try bi-wiring the speakers which I had done years ago, and didn't think much of. I used garden variety 14 AWG cable I bought at a home improvement store. I didn't want to invest a lot in something I was just getting desperate about to get more detail and ambience. I used the same length and connected the 14 gauge to my low frequency terminals, and used the existing 16 gauge banana plugs for the HF. Now I was ready to see what would happen, if anything. As it turns out, and I am quite sure it isn't a placebo effect, the sound had improved a bit almost immediately to my perception. It's hard to explain, but everything felt more controlled and pronounced. It's like the sonic accuracy had improved. Then I went to Willie Nelson's Stardust to listen for that drum. It was subtly improved. I could discern it in other words, so I am convinced bi-wiring was worth it for the ease I did it especially. I make even step the cables up at some point, but for now I'm satisfied. The music just blends better with the extra cable, and sending it to different connectors directly rather than using some jump plate. Well, if you made it this far, that's my two cents. (I imagine I could have just used a thicker cable in single-wired configuration, and gotten a sonic improvement or installed a better jumper, but what the heck, the extra terminals are there to take advantage of).

I have shure 1540 headphones, only the faintest of difference was heard, but it has made my mind up to get a pair of these.

The jumper cables somewhat improved the sound or am i mistaken ?

Every system is different: Simple truth is: The 2 posts are there for the use of 2 seperate channels to drive the speakers properly. Tweeters do not require alot of power to drive as to the woofers or even some mids that do require some fire in the wire. Most people are only going to have regular recievers, in that case use only 1 cable for the speaker and keep your jumper connected. Its not going to change anything. If you purchase a processor. Research the speakers that you are interested in. Call the manufacturer, ask to talk with the technical department. Ask them technical questions about there speakers. And ask them what power requirements do they suggest for the best sound reproduction for the tweeters, mids and woofers. Ask them what was used to test the speakers individually or all together. They may tell you exactly what amp works best with there speakers.

Don't be childish? Stay as you are man, I love these vids. My next biwiring experiment I'm gonna fat ass wires to the bass & hair thin wire to the tweeters. I dunno. Best wishes for 2023 my dude.

I dont care if anyone spent 10 grand on cables, they will sound no better than 1 awg cable, true fact

Sound quality is difficult over KZfaq because they use compression on videos, however using the JBL104 monitors I have on my PC, I could tell the difference between the standard and the other two, Bi-Wiring and Jumper leads both sounded like it had a bit more air to the treble so better for me. But fully Bi-wired compared to the jumper links sounded exactly the same to me, but that might just be KZfaq. The only suggestion I would make is, if you buy/make jumper leads try and make/buy them out of the same cable that your main cable lengths are made of just for a bit of continuity, However, any half decent cable should definitely be better than the solid jumper bars. Enjoyed this one thank you.

Hi mart, I used silver plated qed cable and side entry gold plate banana plugs . Regards mark

Yes the difference is there and can be heard. Though Bi-Wiring sounds much better than the other two. Jumper cable is second in line. Can any good electrical wire be used instead of speaker wire ?

I noticed a very slight increase in the top end when the speakers were bi-wired, as you are using two runs of cable, therefore a higher capacity to transport the signal. But listening via KZfaq is never ideal. In theory, bi-wiring is just moving the bridge between terminals closer to the amplifier, because you are still only using a single set of terminals for each speakerr. Therefore, your speaker crossover is still doing the work of separating the High and Low frequencies. However, Bi-Amping uses two separate amplifiers for the Low, and High frequencies. Therefore splitting the signal before it reaches the speaker cable, and bypassing the speakers internal crossover completely. Thus reducing the amount of electronics the signal has to go through before it reaches the speaker drivers. On cheaper speakers you may notice quite a difference when they are Bi-amped, as opposed to Bi-wired. As cheaper speakers will invariably have cheaper crossover componentry, that can detract from the actual signal, giving a muddy bass or treble, and an incoherent soundstage. So I am a bit of a nerd, when it comes to wiring my speakers. And my amplifier allows for Bi-Amping. And this is the way I have wired my speakers. And they aren't cheap speakers by any means. But I do notice increased resolution, detail, depth, and a more 3 dimensional soundstage when my speakers are Bi-Amped, as opposed to conventionally wired with terminal bridges, and a single run of cable. If your amplifier allows for Bi-Amping, then why not take advantage. It will only cost the price of some extra cable, and will help even out the demand on the amplifiers circuitry, by allowing both amplifiers to run concurrently. A bit like creating a run off in a river to irrigate a field. It will allow the river to cope with increased demand more easily.

bi-wiring at least effectively increases wire gauge; bi-wiring two 16 gauge wires makes into a 13 gauge wire. When I used two 16 gauge wire to connect my passive subwoofer, I, anyone can hear the fuller sound. Then combing two 14 gauge wires makes into 11 gauge wire. I can here fuller sound again. Now, I use as bigger wire as banana plugs can accept for my passive subwoofer and bookshelf speakers.

Don’t mind the haters! Anyways, I think it’s only logical to replace those cheap, thin jumpers of unknown metal with some known metal thicker gauge jumpers. Here’s what I heard through my floor standing speakers: Standard sounded a bit stuffy with less range in the upper registers. Hard to judge bass since there was a lot of distortion coming through that microphone. Bi-Wiring definitely opens things up more with better presence in the treble and a more airy quality. Quite nice IMO but not sure if it’s worth all the extra wiring and effort. Jumper cables sounded similar to bi-wiring but actually sounded a bit more forward presentation-wise. Surprisingly noticeable difference and probably my favorite if you like a more forward vocal presentation like I do. Definitely worth the effort to do this cheap upgrade and the one I would choose over the others. Thanks for the video!

i kept the strips on and also added a 12 gauge wire... instead one or the other i chose both. but now i'm bi-amping so no strip or wire right now.

What would happen if you hook up your speaker wire from your receiver to just the high side and not the low side? Will you just hear treble or nothing? Thanks

You had me at headphones. Only way to test speakers 🤣🤣

Measure the jumper plate. If there resistance is pretty much nothing then is not affecting anything. Simple

The connector plates are obviously bare, (unshielded). So one may have the best shielded speaker cable in the world coming from your active crossover or your amplifier and there is still unshielded plates sticking out unshielded like a purpose built RF antennae. My argument is; that even the jumper wires need to be shielded.

Sir, sound is very top high quality, speaker brand which company?

Please don't change your style ever, YOU DEVIL!! Also your content is very good. Keep it up!

If you put bigger wires, like 12 gauge, it will do the same thing. Bi wiring isn't the same as bi amping. The wires carry the same signal. I'm a electronic technician with 40 years or so of experience, and use to say that if I can't measure any difference with a spectrum analyser or a distortion meter, human ears won't hear any difference. My devices aren't biased to any suggestions. Wires companies absolutely love bi wiring :)

There is no way two wires are better than plates

Bi-wiring out of the same (amp-side) binding post set into (speaker-side) several binding posts has an effect based on cable (!) properties which affect different frequency ranges (one of several physics explanations is 'skin effect' - in short: resistance of the cable is frequency-dependent, the higher the frequency the more the current runs only on the outside of one wire core). I.e., bi-wiring only does something if you are indeed using different cables (e.g., different thickness of the cable cores, different material mix of cores, different thickness of total cable). Note: This has nothing to do with (expensive) cable voodoo, but rather say e.g., you want to use a thinner cable (or one with less cores) for the high frequencies' range - you could reach the effect to tone a bright speaker a bit down. Whether this will result in audible difference, is up to (your) test. But: bi-wiring allows you to separate the effect that cable properties have on the sound for the two different frequency ranges. Hence: it gives you an extra parameter to tweak sound. What you show in your video is consistent: if you use the same wire, you will have almost no effect. (Except: it might transmit 'more' power in total - but that would be reached also by using a thicker cable with more cores or twin cables into the same speaker binding post)

Utube stream must be high quality. i could actyally hear the difference there.

I've had a good listen......over and over.........the bi-wiring has a bit more definition on the upper mid range....not easy to tell on KZfaq but that's my pennies worth. That said having unequal ceiling heights above the speakers is not ideal.

Being a little s*>t I must mention as you were yoinking the jumper wires they really should have yoinked clockwise so when you screw the terminal nut back on it pulls the cable in instead of pushing the pigtail out. He he ya ya wo wo 😅

Bi-wiring is an intelligence test.

Have been doing this for over 20 years. 🤓

Won't make the slightest bit of difference. If you think it does then you're kidding yourself. Costs nothing to try though and if you think it's better, win, win.

Noticing that many good quality speakers only have one pair of binding posts surely if they thought that two pairs would be beneficial every manufacturer would fit two pairs instead of just one pair??

Who said that adults can't have fun! Btw, if a bridge wire is better than the plate, wouldn't a zero length bridge with no extra connections (= single input) be even better? 😬 Maybe if one have separate amplifiers, with better filters, for low and highs, using two inputs may have some sense? 🤔 But so shouldn't one supposed to be able to bypass the speakers low and high pass filters then? Onest questions

Bi-wiring does not work, electronically. It does in terms of getting rid of the crap connectors supplied by manufacturers. So, everyone should use speaker wire instead of the connectors, to connect the high and low. However, for way better sound you basically need two amps, so bi-amping.

A well-known company that sold 1/3 of all loudspeakers in the world 40 years ago, put a regular steel wire on its top model with biwiring option. Any comment?

Before you waste your time in future, message me first and run it by me). A short run like that is in the uR compared with 8R/4R LOL, you will never hear a real difference. Lets say its 3uR lower (and thats generous!), 20*log (8/0.000003)= -128dB which is below the threshold of hearing ) and far lower than the noise floor on your cd player.

They work. My totem mites had more clarity and bass

Sorry, but the buggs by 11,45 min. was not heavy enough. Use an anti-tank mine on your baggs, then you will definitely be awake ; - )

If you watch Mzillch on KZfaq, he debunks any form of bi wiring. It's just not possible to split an electrical signal from the same source, using two cables. As someone said, it should be called "buy wiring", because that's all you do, buy double the amount of cable for no possible improvement in sound.

Tv cable 75ohm

I’m no audiophile or expert but even on KZfaq I can hear the bi wiring has more upper range definition. Looking as was going to bi wire my 12 year old then entry level system to give it a boost. My floor standing Tannoy speakers are renowned for being bass heavy and lacking a bit of high range clarity and definition.

Imo, insignificant.

Look mate.. You've obviously got it totally wrong.. Hoho heehee haha is the way to go

I can tell the difference.

Jumpers help a little bit very minimal, however you should bi amp not by wire to hear the difference. Bi wiring is a joke...

For BEST performance when connecting standard 2 wire to a speaker with Bi-Wire/Bi-amp binding posts. Connect your speaker wire (from amplifier) to the High Frequency binding posts, typically the top pair of binding posts on speaker.

Hahah. More audiophile whacko stuff. In fact inside that speaker will be 5 cent per foot original wires connecting from the bonding posts to the crossover and speakers. Such BS here.

Can’t tell any difference personally .

This whole Bi Wiring terminology is a gimic. Leave it to millenials to change the terminology. Most amplifiers do not have separate outputs for high, mid and bass frequencies. That's the job of the crossovers in the speakers, if they have them at all. There's three ways to wire speakers and there have always only been three ways. Parallel wiring, series wiring and a combination of the two, series parallel combination. Must we change the terminology? If you use a jumper from one speaker post to another that just means you're wiring both speakers in series. This means you have one current path so you don't loose current through the speakers but you do loose voltage because you can think of each speaker as a resistor in series.. However, if there is a crossover circuit inside, you must wire accordingly. I don't see how you would do it in parallel unless you have separate outputs for highs, mids and lows on your amp or receiver. In any case if you put positive to positive and negative to negative you're wiring in parallel. This whole bi wiring phenomenon is just more bs to distract people from the product itself. Look at the build quality and most importantly the frequency response of the speakers themselves. It is often better and relatively simple to construct your own speaker that in many cases will out perform high end speakers. Beware of gimics. Don't be fooled by terminology you've never heard. As far as I can see the wiring is still the same and has been for the last 70 years or so. What has changed is the materials that speakers are made from and they are much more durable and responsive to input signals.

The weakest link is the human ear, everyone is different. Has anyone used a sensitve microphone to produce some type of graph so the difference(if any) can be seen rather than only attempting to detect by listening?

Someone commenting negatively to your obvious enthusiasm that you show in your uploads tells us much more about the commentator than you. We like your intro, please don't change it to make some pratt feel he's got one over on you. And thanks for the upload.

Just leave the originals and add the cable. More is better.....

So the stock jumpers are trash 🗑️...

That short aluminum plate will have far lower impedance than the wire you replaced it with. Do yourself a favor and watch some videos on basic electricity from a reputable source.

Listening on Headphones will not work because by using Headphones you are bypassing the speakers.

You need to prove that there is a difference - not an opinion.

Dude... really. Don't quit your day job.

A waste of time