Bi-Wiring SDA 2Bs

dcmeigs
dcmeigs Posts: 708
edited April 2008 in Vintage Speakers
I'm about ready to pull the crossovers from my SDA 2Bs for the 4.1TL polypropylene film cap up-grade and I am tempted to lead the tweeter outputs to separate posts so that I can bi-wire them. Has anyone done this yet (I searched the forum -honest);)? How did it sound?
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited April 2008
    Buy one set of nice wires. One nice set is better than 2 decent sets.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2008
    IMO, one set of nice wires with nice termination and a pair of nice binding posts is the way to go, and cheaper to boot. Unless you plan on bi-amping, I wouldn't bother.
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  • NJPOLKER
    NJPOLKER Posts: 3,474
    edited April 2008
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Buy one set of nice wires. One nice set is better than 2 decent sets.

    Man this guy is good. :cool:
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  • dcmeigs
    dcmeigs Posts: 708
    edited April 2008
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Buy one set of nice wires. One nice set is better than 2 decent sets.

    Ok, now lets see if I got this down right. :confused: Is nice better than decent or is it gonna be the other way around? :D

    Seriously, I appreciate the input. There has been a lot written about how the bass signal ruins the wire for the high pass signal, and frankly it's a lot to swallow with out hearing it first hand.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited April 2008
    dcmeigs wrote: »
    Ok, now lets see if I got this down right. :confused: Is nice better than decent or is it gonna be the other way around? :D

    Seriously, I appreciate the input. There has been a lot written about how the bass signal ruins the wire for the high pass signal, and frankly it's a lot to swallow with out hearing it first hand.


    Biwiring isn't going to solve that. You'd have to go active and biamped to cure that.
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  • dcmeigs
    dcmeigs Posts: 708
    edited April 2008
    amulford wrote: »
    Biwiring isn't going to solve that. You'd have to go active and biamped to cure that.

    I can see how that would produce a benefit, but I think it would be a low bang for the buck at this level.

    I do think it would be interesting to try using the 100 watt outputs on my Yamaha Receiver to drive the tweeters and the Rotel 200W to drive the low pass. My guess is that it would be a wash. I'll put that on my list of to-dos, right after that 2-stroke Evenrude blender project.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited April 2008
    Most Yami's are pretty bright. I would definetly drive them with the Rotel. There are some nice speaker wires here in the FM. I am partial to the AQ line of speaker wire, and I also build star quad silvers for Polkies on the cheap.
    Ben
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  • dcmeigs
    dcmeigs Posts: 708
    edited April 2008
    ben62670 wrote: »
    Most Yami's are pretty bright. I would definetly drive them with the Rotel. There are some nice speaker wires here in the FM. I am partial to the AQ line of speaker wire, and I also build star quad silvers for Polkies on the cheap.
    Ben

    I'm going to swap for some Kimba Kable 4PR wire here soon and give that a listen. I like AQ too, I use them for interconnects. I have some Tributaries A3s I will get around to listening to soon. I'll check out your star quad silvers too. I saw your web address.

    BTW, heating up the soldering station. Getting started on the 2B cap, resistor and RD0198 mod.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2008
    My Tannoys were internally wired with 4PR, I would say they're on the warm side, practically dull.

    Do one thing at a time.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2008
    The RDO198 upgrades are priceless demeigs; and using Kimbers internally isn't going to hurt either. Good luck with the project.
    Jake
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,820
    edited April 2008
    I wouldn't bother making them capable of bi-wiring.
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