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I am stunned

After reading these forums for awhile I can finally say that I am a skeptic no longer with respect to biwiring. I recently purchased a demo pair of Martin Logans from a local dealer and found that I did not have enough money to purchase a decent set of speaker cables. As I was getting ready to take the speakers home the dealer stopped me and offered to loan me a set of cables until I had enough cash (Great Dealer!!!) to purchase some cables. Well, when I got home I discovered that the Logans were easily biwirable and that the cables he lent me were biwire cables. When I auditioned the Logans the dealer must have connected the jumpers when I told him I was not interested in biwiring a set of speakers. I figured what the hell, lets give it a try. I connected everything up, popped in a CD and my mouth fell to the floor. Unbelievable. So from one ex-skeptic to anyone who has a doubt. Biwiring works, I am an EE and frankly do not care why anymore.
liguy
detlof
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Liguy, thanks for your intellectual honesty and sharing it with us. Obviously you are a true empiricist, not stuck in the ideologies, which are passed on from one generation to the next, which in maintaining to be scientific fact more often than not just cover plain ignorance as regards phenomena occuring outside of the mainstream of official thinking.
detlof
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Hey its incredible. Liguy has already been voted down! I gave him a plus 2/2 and got two zeros as a result. Shooting in the back I call that. Why does the person not speak out, if he has something to criticise. Its just plain lazyness and or cowardice or probably both. So, that will get me a few minuses too, but I had to speak out.
katharina
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Hello, I gave everyone two points to even out that ridiculous backsniping. Great thread Liguy!
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megasam
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I have posted this in other bi-wire threads, but for speakers designed for bi-wire the only consideration for the customer is does the additional cost of bi-wire ($500 + $500) sound better than a more expensive single run of speaker cable ($1000) with jumpers. The answer to this depends on what cables are being considered.
Even though I bi-wire I recognize there is no one correct
answer to this subject, each person must try out on their own system and see if it is worth the additional cost.

I take it from LiGuy that he feels the improvement is worth the additional cable cost. Also LiGuy the bi-wire improvement is maximized when two runs of speaker cable are used versus a single internal bi-wire cable which is an effective compromise to keep cost down.
sugarbrie
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I agree many people look too much at the specs. Lets take that logic in a differenct direction. Now take the human voice. It also produces sound by way of vibrating vocal cords. Your typical decent tenor who sings as the cantor at your favorite place of worship can hit all the same notes as Pavarotti. So on paper all tenors will spec out the same. Therefore all tenors must sound exactly the same (NOT). This would mean that people who pay $300 for a ticket to hear Pavarotti at the Met, could hear the same thing at the local community opera for $20; and must be as crazy as people who spend $500 on a pair of cables, when $50 will do. So next time you get in that debate, ask the person if they can tell the difference between Pavarotti and a local tenor at church. If they are true to their belief, they will say there is no difference.
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