Advantages of bi-wire?

My Maggies come factory ready for bi-wiring/amping.
But, since I'm a poor skeptic, I simply changed out the AWFUL Chrome Plated Steel jumpers for some hand-whittled 6ga copper and feel so much better that is sounds better! The wire was 0.40$/foot.

Like the Home Depot has. There is some critic who swears by speaker cable home made from house wiring that he gets from Home Depot. Can't remember if he uses 8awg or 10awg.

Tpreaves. Found good info searching the archives. Searching "biamping" in addition is also good complementary info. Not so hot on biwiring now. Thanks. Lynne

Bi wiring offers an advantage to any speaker, speaker wire, connector, or binding post manufacturer to sell more "product" and/or to promote the superiority of their product vs. a traditional single configuration.

"System dependent" allows any of the parties mentioned above to escape criticisms that bi wiring offers no advantages to their customers.

Regards,

I guess I'm going to risk getting into an argument with Cwlondon by disagreeing with him, but I can only offer personal experience in my system.

I have had three primary pairs of speakers that all were capable of bi-wiring. In all cases, the manufacturers recommended bi-wiring. On two of the speakers, I preferred single wire with jumpers...which is to say, I couldn't hear much difference between the approaches.

On the third pair of speakers, I prefer bi-wiring, and I can clearly hear differences that I like, e.g. an image that has more weight and sounds more cohesive.

I really believe every owner who is curious needs to experiment for him/herself. I push back hard against those who are intractable in their view that any difference heard by a listener is a result of wishful thinking, or the placebo effect.