Bi wiring Speakers

[weetabix]

Hi Marvan,

My advice is to "suck it 'n' see!"

The benefits of bi-wiring are, in most cases, audible; especially if you're playing at volumes where the bass cones are really shifting somewhat. The benefit tends to be negligable at quiet volumes.

regards

Stephen

[apollo]

From what I have experienced it depends very much on the speakers. Speakers like Vienna Acoustics won't even allow you to bi wire since they only have a single input. While B&W recommends that their speakers be bi wired for best performance.

I bi wired mine and have noticed considerable improvement in low frequency control and reduction of high frequency fatigue. So I will also say try it out and see if it works for you.

[Marvan]

Gents (so far)
Thank you for your kindness and helpful comments
Food for thought
I shall keep you updated
Cheers
Marvan

[pwood]

You will notice a difference bi-wiring. Take care as I did and thought it was better due to "Ive changed something it must be better thing us Hifi fanatics can suffer". I was using Linn K400 cable which is a dedicated biamp/wire cable and about as good as have found for the money. I recently single wired my speakers using just the bottom section of the K400 placing the jumpers on (carefully of course!) and to my amazement and annoyance the sound was far more OF A WHOLE, image had more solidity and bass was tighter more rhythmical. Basically in my case biwireing actually confused the sound. I then bought some Sterling black Mamba speaker cable and can see me ever changing it to be honest as its fantastic and one of the few cables to be significantly better than the Linn K400 stuff.

If you are using mono block amps or say Linn/Arcam type bi amping using another power amp then it sounds better but thats bi amping.