To bi-wire or not to bi-wire?

>>04-02-10: Irvrobinson
Bi-wiring makes no difference at all, unless you're using cables with a gauge of wire too small for the length and speaker impedance<<

April Fool's right?

>>04-02-10: Irvrobinson
Bi-wiring makes no difference at all, unless you're using cables with a gauge of wire too small for the length and speaker impedance<<

Note the date. True every day except, perhaps, April 1.

Kal

bi-wire

I once owned Silverline Sonata III loudspeakers, which Alan Yun the owner of Silverline, adamantly stated were designed to be bi-wired and sounded best bi-wired. I bi-wired them for a year or so, until I decided to try some new cabling. For the new cabling, I ordered a bi-wire pair, and a single wire pair with matching jumpers.

I preferred the single wire connection. To me, the sound had better focus, and the speakers disappeared better, so I kept the single wire pair and returned the bi-wire pair.

The point being that even on speakers designed for bi-wiring, it pays to try both methods with the same cabling and decide for yourself which method sounds best.

I use double bi-wire speaker cables as short as possible. It just sounds more complete and whole using 2 sets of speaker wires 2 feet long.