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To Bi Wire or not to Bi Wire that is the question?

Just brought home a new pair of KEF R3 bookshelf speakers. This is my first pair of serious speakers. So far I'm pretty happy, but I'm still breaking them in. After listening for a while I decided to research the bi wire option. I did a bunch of reading on the subject, the opinion seems to be 50 /50, so I decided to try it for myself. Immediately I heard a difference, the mid range was more pronounced and the low frequencies were deeper and tighter. I'm not sure about the high frequencies, they were pretty good to begin with.To make sure I wasn't imagining this, I asked my wife to listen, she said it sounded richer (her words). I only used 12 awg wire I had laying around, but if I like this better, I'll invest in some money in more serious cable. I thought I would put this out there and see what other peoples experiences were.
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elizabeth
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Another point mentioned in the past, and might matter: If you biwire, use two independent cables. Biwiring in one cable negates many benefit. (this was mentioned several times in different threads.A TWEAK. to improve coherence, add a JUMPER to the negative posts. (so you have two cables, one to low from amp, one to high from amp, and then a small (can be thin, size is of no importance) connecting the two speaker negative binding posts. Oddly connecting both plus and minus does not improve it, nor does connecting only the two plus posts.           
When I had the option, biwiring did improve clarity.
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