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To bi-wire or not to bi-wire?

I have a pair of B&W 804 Nautilus speakers. They are currently bi-wired with Kimber 8TC cables. I am going to upgrade the cables and was curious as to whether there is a significant difference in sound with bi-wiring. Most of the cables for sale on Audiogon are not bi-wired. If I stay with the bi-wired cables it narrows the field for some good used cables.
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jburidan
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tvad
9,467 posts
 
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.
coxhaus
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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.
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