Here's a short article I came across that might be of interest to some...
http://www.sonicdesign.se/biwire.html
http://www.sonicdesign.se/biwire.html
It's a conspiracy to make us buy more wire than we need isn't it?Anyway, if your speaker has a properly designed crossover then it doesn't require biwiring.
me too, and to add tried passive biamping, and alyhough better than a single amp, not enough that byuing one better amp wouldn't cure, so would only consider polyamping if it was active, but a good passive xover is equaly as good.Jezzer wrote:It's a conspiracy to make us buy more wire than we need isn't it?Anyway, if your speaker has a properly designed crossover then it doesn't require biwiring.
And as for triwiring, they're taking the piss! Triamping perhaps...
I'm with Dynaudio on this.
From my experience I have to agree with Mr Hucker here.bi-wiring makes no difference at all. buy good quality single wire instead.
it's just another rip off like most hifi is.Glad you guys said it makes no differnce. I have had 3 sets of bi-wirable speakers and never heard any change in performance. Thought i wasn't golden eared enough
I hope that people realize that 3° at 4 kHz is 2.7 µs, that is one millimeter at the speed of sound.This changes the radiation pattern of the speaker with the music. The human ear is very sensitive to such phenomena.
I bi wire because when I asked the R&D guys at Tannoy and B&W which is better they said bi wire, I therefore tried it and to me it sounds better.I have my bi-wire cable configured two plugs at the amp end and four into each speaker. I have tried it shotgunned both ends with same cable jumpers and believe the way I have it now is better. Or is it? I remember another thread in which Dave Whit, whose opinions I greatly respect, said using all four speaker terminals with their own plug is a step up from single wire and jumpers. I hope I'm not doing my new speakers a disservice.
Isn't a split crossover a 'proper' design?Anyway, if your speaker has a properly designed crossover then it doesn't require biwiring.
But is that reason to bi-wire or to bi-amp ?When speakers have been designed with four postions to wire up its for a reason
A very good point!I hope that people realize that 3° at 4 kHz is 2.7 µs, that is one millimeter at the speed of sound.If you sittwo meters from your speakers and if their tweeter is 20 cm away from their woofer, then you will get the same "problem" if you sit one centimeter below your tweeter's height.
FWIW I had largely thought that speaker manufacturers did it as consumers expect 'good' speakers to have the bi-wiring facility, and might think speakers without were somehow sub-standard. I've never thought speaker manufacturers cared about increasing cable sales.Nearly all modern speakers have four posts for bi-wiring. This isn't just a gimmick or current 'fashion' to sell more cable as some believe, IMO. That would be silly. It's how the speakers have been designed and allows flexibility when bi-wiring, or more importantly, bi-amping.