WIRING SPEAKERS

beru
beru Posts: 20
in Basic Hookup/Wiring Questions
MY SPEAKERS ARE MONITOR T 75 , AMP IS YAMAHA AS-700.
QUESTIONS:-WILL BIWIRING GET ME BETTER SOUND?
SHOULD I GET A PURE AMP AND USE YAMAHA AS A PREAMP?
- DO I NEED A DAC TO GET BETTER SOUND WITH ITUNE SONGS?
THANKS.
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  • beru
    beru Posts: 20
    NEW TO THE HIFI "KINGDOM"!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,955
    beru wrote: »
    MY SPEAKERS ARE MONITOR T 75 , AMP IS YAMAHA AS-700.
    QUESTIONS:-WILL BIWIRING GET ME BETTER SOUND?
    SHOULD I GET A PURE AMP AND USE YAMAHA AS A PREAMP?
    - DO I NEED A DAC TO GET BETTER SOUND WITH ITUNE SONGS?
    THANKS.

    Biwiring....not necessarily, but....you should swap out those cheap metal jumpers on the speakers for some good quality speaker wire.

    Your Yamaha is fine for those speakers, but any speaker will benefit from additional current fed them. So the answer is, if you can afford it, look for a used Parasound or B&k amp, around 400 bucks.

    ITUNES....if that's your source for music, yes....a dac would help out greatly.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
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  • beru
    beru Posts: 20
    AM USING 14 GAUGE COPPER OXYGEN FREE WIRING FOR SPEAKERS, PLUS GOLD COATED BANANA PLUGS. ANY RECOMMENDATION ON A dac?
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,955
    edited January 2015
    Have a budget in mind ?

    Speaker wire, you can do better.

    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • beru
    beru Posts: 20
    better speaker wire? elaborate please?
    dac: maybe 300 $
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,955
    Cambridge dac magic used is certainly in your ball park and probably the best bang for your buck in that price range.

    Speaker wire is simply a matter of tastes, like an ice cream shop there's just too many flavors to name them all. Think of standard 14 ga as vanilla in a shop of 50 flavors. On a budget, buy cables used as they normally run half the cost of new. Kimber cable, PNF, Analysis plus, MIT, Audioquest, are just some of the more popular brands some use. Douglas connections is a company run by one of our members and offers a good well built cable for not a lot of coin too. Signal cable is another.

    Like everything in audio, sometimes you have to kiss a few frogs to find your prince.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • beru
    beru Posts: 20
    re:swap metal jumpers with cable? please explain?thanks.
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  • mrloren
    mrloren Posts: 2,461
    Yes a DAC will help itunes and MP3 Reason I still have over 1000 CD's is
    When I was a kid my parents told me to turn it down. Now I'm an adult and my kids tell me to turn it down.
    Family Room:LG QNED80 75", Onkyo RZ50 Emotiva XPA3 GEN3 Oppo BDP-93,Sony UBP-X800BM. Main: Polk LsiM 705Center: Polk LSiM 704CFront High/Rear High In-Ceiling Polk 80F/X RT Surrounds: Polk S15 Sub: HSU VTF3-MK5
    Bed Room; Marantz SR5010, BDP-S270Main: Polk Signature S20Center: Polk Signature S35Rear: Polk R15 Sub: SVS SB2000
    Working Warehouse; Yamaha A-S301, Sony DVP-NS3100ES for disc Plok TSX550T SVS PB2000 Mini tower PC with 400GB of music
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
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    2 ch- Polk CRS+ * Vincent SA-31MK Preamp * Vincent Sp-331 Amp * Marantz SA8005 SACD * Project Xperience Classic TT * Sumiko Blue Point #2 MC cartridge

    HT - Polk 703's * NAD T-758 * Adcom 5503 * Oppo 103 * Samsung 60" series 8 LCD
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  • footwedge
    footwedge Posts: 475
    ken brydson wrote: »
    beru wrote: »
    re:swap metal jumpers with cable? please explain?thanks.
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    Why are the speaker cables attached to the upper binding post? I have LSI 7s and cable is on lower post. Is this wrong?
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,752
    footwedge wrote: »
    ken brydson wrote: »
    beru wrote: »
    re:swap metal jumpers with cable? please explain?thanks.
    9sxtbdvgtva3.jpg


    Why are the speaker cables attached to the upper binding post? I have LSI 7s and cable is on lower post. Is this wrong?

    You can connect to either top or bottom whether you are using the plates or jumpers.

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  • footwedge
    footwedge Posts: 475
    edited January 2015
    [/quote]

    Why are the speaker cables attached to the upper binding post? I have LSI 7s and cable is on lower post. Is this wrong?[/quote]

    You can connect to either top or bottom whether you are using the plates or jumpers.

    [/quote]

    Why are the speaker cables attached to the upper binding post? I have LSI 7s and cable is on lower post. Is this wrong?[/quote]

    You can connect to either top or bottom whether you are using the plates or jumpers.

    [/quote]

    Why top over bottom and opposite hand?
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,955
    opposite hand ?

    Doesn't really matter which posts , top or bottom you connect to first as long as those jumpers are there.
    HT SYSTEM-
    Sony 850c 4k
    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

    Cables-
    Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
    Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
    Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

    Kitchen

    Sonos zp90
    Grant Fidelity tube dac
    B&k 1420
    lsi 9's
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  • footwedge
    footwedge Posts: 475
    tonyb wrote: »
    opposite hand ?

    vice versa
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  • footwedge
    footwedge Posts: 475
    Sorry for the double quote was using iphone.
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