Question about bi-wiring speakers
As I posted before I am in the market for some speaker cables and have been doing a ton of looking. I started thinking about how to terminate the cables and that lead to a question about bi-wiring.
The cables I'm looking at have 4 wires so bi-wiring with the cables would be easy. What is the advantage of splitting the output signal from the amp to two terminals on the speakers?
Unless I can find connectors for the wire I have in mind I'm just going to leave the ends bare. The connectors I found would end up costing more than the wire itself because there would be so many. 15 connectors at $20 a pair gets expensive.
Cliff note: What is the advantage of bi-wiring? Does it work well with bare wires at connections?
The cables I'm looking at have 4 wires so bi-wiring with the cables would be easy. What is the advantage of splitting the output signal from the amp to two terminals on the speakers?
Unless I can find connectors for the wire I have in mind I'm just going to leave the ends bare. The connectors I found would end up costing more than the wire itself because there would be so many. 15 connectors at $20 a pair gets expensive.
Cliff note: What is the advantage of bi-wiring? Does it work well with bare wires at connections?
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Check out the GLS banana's. They're quality connectors, that don't cost a whole lot. You can get a 20 pack of them for about 50 bucks. I'm using some of them for my front channels and they work great. You can get them in several different amounts for different prices. Very easy to terminate them yourself too.
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Since you already have the wires gives it a try. You can try it with bare wires its not going to make a difference. I tried bi wiring and didn't hear a difference.
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I don't have the wires yet. I'm going to be listening to some on Saturday that I may buy. Otherwise I'll be getting something off the net.
I'm liking these:
http://www.amazon.com/Audioquest-Feet-Helix-Speaker-Cable/dp/B001OA4X8U/ref=sr_1_29?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1236155484&sr=8-29
The used ones I'm looking at are MIT and I've read really good reviews of them. The MITs aren't that much more than these Audioquest. Bad thing is I won't be able to audition the Audioquest. -
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MIT cables come terminated unless you are buying the bulk inwall stuff. BTW, the real magic of MIT cables are the network boxes.
As for bi-wiring, I'd suggest you spend the extra money it would cost you on upgraded single wire and using the same to replace the stock jumpers.Political Correctness'.........defined
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I've used 12g wire with banana plugs before to make jumpers. It worked very well and sounded as good to me as bi-wiring.
