"Bi-Wiring" Your Powered Towers: The Definitive Reference

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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited August 2002
    TroyD..personally to you....
    You can call 2 channel stereo Home Theater is thats what you like....I'm not going to argue that point anymore.......I talked about it at work and everyone agreed if you try to sell a 2 channel stereo as Home Theater..they would get laughed off the floor.....Many others had said this very same words of todays standards...but like you said........it's an opnion on what Home Theater is to you......Years ago before there was surround sound,there was vcrs to the stereo system..better sound...then the speakers in the TV...I did it myself before Pioneer realised the first surround dolby receiver.
    For me that was then and this is now.......
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited August 2002
    Dan,

    I can go along with that......Gee, imagine THAT!

    Does this mean we aren't going to get Hunter's view on how to biwire them?

    BDT
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited August 2002
    TroyD,
    Rare but good.......
    Hunter was lurking around...I'm sure it will come around sooner then later.
    Dan
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited August 2002
    I'm sure he's still beet-freakin-red after the posts today....

    Time, thats all any man needs, time.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited August 2002
    How much time does it take to change the essence of a man?
    Dan
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited August 2002
    True essence never changes!
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited August 2002
    Oh, I'm sorry. I don't own, nor am seeking, any powered-towers. Then again I've never bought any speakers that I was unhappy with in a couple of years.

    For this reason please ignore this post and the one prior.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • HUNTER
    HUNTER Posts: 78
    edited August 2002
    TroyD,
    As I stated I own rt3000ps that are Bi-wired and I'm sure I do not have to explain how that is accomplished.
    I also stated that the way mantis has bi-wired the 1000s is not true bi-wiring in the sence of separating the highs from the mids, it is quasi bi-wiring because he is running separate speaker level connections to the bass amp and the high/mid drivers.

    I'm done with the is thread and hope that the rest of you don't have to waste too much more time beating it to death.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited August 2002
    Amen...thank you everyone for your time......lets let this one go down in history..........
    Dan
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited March 2006
    Can somebody explain me one thing?

    If I hook up my RT1000p's with "method 1" from the manual (i.e. binding posts shorted), can I plug in the speakers into the power outlet?

    The reason why I am asking is that it does not make much sense to me - you feed powered signal to the input of a powered subwoofer, which must cause clipping/distortion/dead amp? Or am I missing something, and these bottom set of binding posts act like binding posts on real separate subwoofer?

    Thanks!

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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited March 2006
    Plug the speakers in. The powered woofers will not work unless you do.

    No matter how you wire em, you still have to plug them in.

    WOW I just re read this thead.Man the time spent writing all that is now wasted. Unless someone can use it, what a waste.

    Mantis wiring
    Dan
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2006
    Funny stuff
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited March 2006
    Man it was one of these Bi-wire posts that got me started in CP right around this time. Waaaaaaaa............what a newb I was.

    Wish Aaron was still around, he was pretty cool.

    RT1
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  • Skynut
    Skynut Posts: 2,967
    edited March 2006
    I bi-wire my cs1000p. I did it so the sub would only produce sound from the center channel and not the LFE track.
    I had done the same when the rt2000p's were on each side of my t.v.
    Now I have the rt55's on each side of my screen and they are bi-wired.
    All of my bi-wireing was done because I got the wires free when I bought my RT5000 system used.
    Since I got free wires I figured I should try them out.
    I upgraded my 14g wires to the bi-wires and heard a difference but that was probably to be expected with a heavier gauge of wire.
    I am going to finnish my b-wireing of the FX1000's tonight, I did this because I wanted to change the 14g to 10g and decided to just use both. I might use both sets of wire with the jumper just to increase the overall wire size.

    Argue on.
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  • DiscoMike
    DiscoMike Posts: 114
    edited March 2006
    After reading this thread, do I dare ask if the CS1000p and the FX1000s are bi-amp'able to bring back up some old feelings ? When starting to read this thread, I was about to put my 2 cents in saying that my Tower Powers are bi-ampable, but someone answered that already, and I dont have the room to put up 3 more amps just for bi-amping. Just bi-wired the 3000p and 1000p. Getting the 1000FX for the bedroom today. WHOO HOOO !
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2006
    f/x1000's ... yes.

    CS1000p... dunno...

    Great old thread.... Feel like we're going to see a lot more of these from now on with the "Related Threads" list at the bottom of page in the new look forum...

    And that's a good thing...
    More later,
    Tour...
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