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biwire trick

Some of you seasoned vets may have heard of this, but I had never thought about it. Researching jumpers led me to Music direct's website, where in the description of some Nordost jumpers it read to try switching one lead from both mid and tweet. IOW take the positive lead from the tweeter and swap it with the pos lead from the mid.

I have a true biwire setup (separate runs for mid and tweet), don't know if this makes a diff, but the sound definitely improved: fuller, more natural, larger stage. try it as one of the easiest, free tweaks to do. You may be surprised.
tholt
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shadorne
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Wrong? Different.

No just plain wrong. If one wanted to roll off the treble ever so slightly then there are better tools for that, such as tone controls, an EQ or more room treatments etc.

Cables should be neutral. Using cables to tune things is such a cumbersome way to achieve a simple task it beggars belief!
tholt OP
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No just plain wrong. If one wanted to roll off the treble ever so slightly then there are better tools for that, such as tone controls, an EQ or more room treatments etc.

Who said anything about tone control or rolled off treble? Please re-read my my findings. But I suppose I could go back to the 'right' configuration, satisfied that I'm not doing something I'm not supposed to be doing, and just pretend that it sounded better than the 'wrong' way.

Scream 'cables should be (insert word here)!' all you want, Shardorne. As Elizabeth said, "Theory is great for arguing." I'm not here to argue.
tvad
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Tholt, if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

:)

Good for you for experimenting and trusting your ears.
tholt OP
545 posts
 
Good for you for experimenting and trusting your ears.

As long as nothing blows up, or now has a reason to, why not (thanks Al)? I was piqued by the Nordost write up -- to attach the leads to treble and mid from a single cable. In their case they fill the gap with their jumpers, but it seemed like they were essentially balancing the current load. Biwire, in principal, should do an even better job since it would be truly balanced.

No idea. I wouldn't have posted it if it didn't make a difference. Even Nordost doesn't know why it works. IOW, theory can kiss my axx.

Oh, and always, YMMV
mchu168
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I run 2 completely separate cables per speaker for the highs and mids (total of 4 runs of cable for L+R). I thought running the highs and mids in separate cables was part of the benefit of biwiring. Of course the two runs are connected at the amp end anyways. Would a diagonal biwiring approach make sense in my situation?
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