Bi-wire Jumpers

Posted by: u5227470736789524 on 08 March 2003

I have a pair of Linaeum LFX/C (corian) speakers which I like to connect from time to time. They were purchased in'94 to replace my Spica TC-50, currently forum popular, with reason.

The Linaeums offer 2 pair binding posts, with spade connection the only possibility (no bananas, no bare wire possible). The jumpers supplied with the speakers are pretty cheesy flat brass connectors. With prior equipment, I was using Wireworld speaker cables and Wireworld jumpers.

The question .... in using NACA5, not real pliable in use anyway and with such a short distance requiring spades on each end, are there exceptable alternatives anyone can suggest ?

note - this is not meant as a thread for the philisophical (or sophamoric) debate of "bi-wiring", the reality is there are two sets of binding posts (manufacture's choice, not mine), what are reasonable alternatives as jumpers, when using NACA5.

Thanks for any help

Jeff A

ps - I think these little speakers, maybe in similar ways to people's attachment to Kans, do some things very very well. The high frequency driver (different and, in a different league all-together, than the subsequent one used in the Optimus LX5 by Radio Shack) is quite special to my ears. The speaker gives nothing below 65-70 hz but tuneful to it's lower limits. But like the TC-50's (and apparently the revered Kans) they make music .... and Fremer panned them in the Absolute Sound '92, so they must be decent. Markwell did a follow up using them with a Janis subwoofer and spent nearly the whole "review" talking about the bass (of the Linaeum?).
Posted on: 08 March 2003 by u5227470736789524
Thanks Ross, that may be the best way to go if no other options are offered.

My original thinking was against this idea as the spacing between the binding posts is very short, and adapting the Kans bare bi-wire jumper idea from prior threads - straight jumper but with spade on each end - did (does) not seem feasible within that limited space. Using a longer piece of NACA 5 spaded and "bending" outside the posts to connect may be possible but because of the inflexiblity of the wire may be as problematic as the Wireworld jumpers have been for the same reason, albeit giving me the "correct" wire match of NACA all the way through.

Thank you for your response Ross.

Jeff A