Should I Bi-wire My RTi70's?

Music Junkie

I've owned my RTi70's for years and love them. Recently I've been looking into electronics again (seeing if I can improve my system etc.), and see that there are some debates on bi-wiring - some say it's good, while other say there's no sound difference.

Can anyone provide some insight on whether it's beneficial to bi-wire Polk Audio RTi70 speakers?

Thanks in advance!

Solumnus

I am fairly new to this game as well. All I can suggest from researching the heck out of it is: Do what sounds good to you.
Some do bi-wire, some don't, just like every other choice out there. Also search the forums and google for all the opinions. There is an endless amount of info out there. There are also some sites that do the math and science related to the issue and come up with differnent outcomes and recommendations. SOOO, lol, just do what sounds good to you.

Like I said I have researched the heck out of it and there is no right or wrong answer to this question as far as I can tell. Hope it helps.

danger boy

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77863&highlight=biwiring

this will be the most helpful link you can imagine on bi wiring. check out the link

wutadumsn23

Bi-Wiring/Bi-Amping with an AVR IMO is a waste of speaker wire. The AVR only has one place where the power comes from and it isn't all of a sudden going to double the power going to a speaker because you hooked it up to another set of posts on the back of your receiver. Like Sol said try it if you want and see if there is any difference. Just my $.02.

Music Junkie

Thanks for your replies. The speakers sound great as is, and I think I'll stick to NOT bi-wiring the speakers.

danger boy

Music Junkie wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. The speakers sound great as is, and I think I'll stick to NOT bi-wiring the speakers.

cool... yeah don't sweat it.. we've all been there at one time or another. i know I did the whole bi wiring thing several years ago.. then finally put it out of my head and have never been more satisfied with my speakers since then.

comfortablycurt

When I get my RTi8's, I'll probably end up trying it just for **** and giggles. I have the extra speaker wire, so I might as well give it a shot. I won't really be expecting any improvement, but hell...it'll kill 20 minutes or so.

As I said though...I'm not expecting any improvements. In fact, I'm fairly certain that there won't be any improvements...lol

brody05

From the manual in my amp, not as good as bi-amping but the next step up, also depend on the amp itself ot some degree. Give it a go, you may be suprised.

As the speakers vibrate to reproduce sound coming from the amplifier, the drivers also act like small generators, creating a signal of their own, which is forced back down the speaker wire. This is called back emf. The woofer, due to its cones’ larger moving mass, generates the bulk of back emf. This relatively messy signal mixes with the more delicate midrange and tweeter signals on the speaker wire and has the net effect of clouding the sound.At minimum, you could run separate pairs of speaker wire to each input on the back of the speaker. This is called bi-wiring. Your dealer can configure special cables that have four separate connectors at the speaker end, and are joined into two banana jacks at the amplifier end. The sonic improvement in a bi-wired speaker over a single wired speaker can be noticeable. This isolates the back emf from affecting the signal in each speaker wire, but still combines the wires at the amplifier end and mixes the back emf with the pure signal coming out of the unit.

Solumnus

As I said earlier, some say yes and some say no. Only way to really know is listen to a system both ways and decide for yourself.

hgripper

I actually biamped my rti 70s recently with an onkyo 706; they sound louder and cleaner.

timmythugs

I bi amped my denon avr 887 with rti12s and noticed a difference