Advantages of bi-wire?

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.

Tvad,

I think I have bi wired the pair of ATC's on my desktop, to the extent that I use two sets of connectors on each speaker which emerge from a single cable?

But I too am a little confused regarding theoretical and actual benefits, so I was just kidding around a bit.

1-14-10: Cwlondon
I think I have bi wired the pair of ATC's on my desktop, to the extent that I use two sets of connectors on each speaker which emerge from a single cable?

Yes, that's one way to do it.