Single wiring bi-wireable speakers

I run my N802's single wired, sounds more coherent and a better soundstage than bi-wired. I've tried using both sets of terminals and various jumper wires and settled on the bottom (woofer) terminals as the main input and use the B&W supplied jumper wires to the mids/tweets. You can do a lot of fine tuning with jumpers. I have five different sets.

I tried the Newforms last night with the stock gold plated jumpers and the Kimber 8TC connected to the top binding posts. These were not the same speakers I remembered when they were in my reference system several months ago with bi-wired Tice 416A cables. Very muddy bottom end last night!

It makes me wish I hadn't cannobolized the bi-wired pair of 8TC that I had to make 2 single run pair. The comparison that I'm now trying to make against the Talon Khorus dossn't seem at all fair. It's either an apples to oranges cable comparison (Tice on the Newforms and Kimber on the Talons), or a "direct" cable comparison knowing full well that the low end of the Newforms is suffering from a sub-optimal set-up (i.e., same cables, but is it really the same if one set of speakers were designed to be bi-wired and the other pair was not?)

I guess I'll just have to do my best! Thanks for all the help.

I highly suggest popping off the binding post plate and rewiring the posts such that all speaker wires are attached to one set of binding posts, thus eliminating any need for gold plated scrap metal or overpriced and sound degrading jumpers. I ran a set of Energy speakers biwired, single wired and then tried rewired internally as mentioned above to where I could just run one set of binding posts/cables, the sound was better then with the strap and no worse then biwired, but was cheaper and more aesthetically pleasing....