S60 connection.

Hello Everyone, I just got 2 P60s, and they have the option of bi-amp and bi-wiring. My receiver is a AVR-X3300W, which offers me the option of bi-amp on a 5.1 system. The thing is I wanted to run a 7.1, in which case leaves me with Bi-wiring the Front L & R. Should I leave the metal plate and also connected 2 sets of cable to the speaker(4wires), keep the metal plate and one connected 1 set of cables or remove the metal plate anyways and just used 4 sets of cable?
That was confusing!
Thanks
That was confusing!
Thanks
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And by "generally", I mean "always" when referring to audiophiles in the know.
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Sorry for the stupid question, but what are the metal plates for ? I'll keep them anyways
Unless your bi-wiring, then you'd remove them.
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instead of the metal plates you could make jumpers, basically you would take small pieces of speaker wire and replace the metal plates with them.. some say the metal in the plates are low quality metal and wont carry the signal as well. so having a matching set of jumpers and main speaker wire might give you a slight advantage in sound quality.
this is easier than bi wire i think and probably gives you the exact same benefit. one set of the speakers terminals on the back of your speakers runs the woofer and the other runs the tweeter.. so you hook your speaker wire to the bottom set of terminals and that drives the woofer, without the jumpers you would not get any sound to the tweeter.
here is a example of jumpers made out of speaker wire instead of metal plates,
preferably i would use the spade connectors for the jumpers and i would use banana plugs for the main wire.. that is how mine are set up.. if you replace the metal jumpers with jumpers made of speaker wire you may or may not hear a difference you would have to try it and let your ears decide.
just make sure you do not touch the speaker wires together while the amp is on, if you disconnect the speaker wires to do something like this and they touch it can blow a fuse in your amp so always turn the amplifiers power off when connecting speakers wires to your speakers.
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Yep, and add to that using an AVR to "bi-amp" probably starved them of even more current. These bi-amp features on AVR's was the biggest mistake the brands made because it does nothing and may in fact hurt things by giving the false impression you can use more of the volume dial.
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The tweeter couldn't stand the volume you had it at, most likely. Tweeters only use around 10-20 watts depending. Keep the volume down, unless there is another reason your turning it way up.
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