In an article for Patrons titled, "Don't Get Mad: A Tale of Two Jumpers," Twittering Machines' Michael Lavorgna recounts his experience with AudioQuest's ThunderBird BiWire Jumpers.
It began innocently enough. Our Director of Marketing and Communications, Stephen Mejias, had arrived at Michael's home to help install sets of speaker cables, interconnects, power cables, and a mighty Niagara 7000 to properly accommodate $175,000 worth of amplification — the Octave Audio Jubilee Preamplifier and Mono Ultimate Monoblocks — that Michael would be reviewing.
After acclimating to the system with a few lovely tracks, neither Stephen nor Michael particularly eager to heft hundreds of pounds of monoblocks and power conditioning, they decided to begin the overhaul with our comparatively simple ThunderBird BiWire Jumpers. And while these Jumpers made for the much lighter, much less physically demanding swap, their impact on the overall performance of the system was anything but modest.
Michael looked at Stephen. Stephen looked at Michael. The letters "W," "T," and "F" may have materialized in the space between them as their stunned silence soon turned into giddy laughter.
This was one of those moments. One of those WTF moments that audiophiles, music lovers, and gear nerds in general simply ache for — an improvement so large and obvious and completely out-of-the-blue that it would be hard to believe if they hadn't heard it with their own ears.
The ThunderBird Jumpers were replacing a set of jumpers that had shipped with the impressive YG Sonja 3.3 loudspeaker system, which itself costs a substantial $146,800. Michael concludes the piece with a bold declaration:
The AudioQuest ThunderBird BiWire jumpers cost $325 for a set of 4.... That’s the best $325 someone spending $146,800 on speakers can spend.
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