Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Sub and speaker wire question

I am finally ready to order my new system. I am getting the Yamaha rxv1400 as soon as I get confirmation from etronics that theirs have the DPLX2. Speakers will be m60's, vp150 and qs8's. This will be in a 12x20 bare hardwood floor room. About 50/50 music/HT. I like to jam pretty good sometimes, mostly harder rock. My questions are: 1) I am going to order a hsu sub. Still debating between STF2 and VTF2. Do I need to be concerned about a downfiring sub on these floors? I would really rather not put a throw rug under sub due to appearance. Also any advice between the 2 subs would be appreciated. 2) Been doing some reading on speaker wire. (unbelievable to me how $$ this can be!) I have gathered I should use 12ga. I am eyeballing the Sound King stuff at Parts express mostly due to seems like the most cost efficient of all the suggestions I have seen. What is biwiring? (sounds like wiring it twice??) Is this beneficial? Also any other suggestions to wire (Reasonably priced) would also be appreciated. All here on this forum have been very helpful in all my decisions so far. That is why I am posting here these questions. Thanks all alot! Jeff

Biwiring is a myth. As for cool speaker wire (won't necessarily sound any better, but it looks cool!) and more info on the myth of biwiring see this link. For those of you who have seen all of my posts about speaker wires, it's the same damn article again.

Given the choice, get the STF-2. It'll save you some money, and it's basically the same as the VTF-2 but not switchable. (Which most people don't do anyway.) I personally have a VTF-2 (they didn't make the STF-2 when I purchased it). I, as most owners do, have it set for max extension. That's what the STF-2 is permanently set at.

Dr. Hsu recommends putting a throw rug down on hardwood floors, not really sure why.

Thanks KC, good reading. Spiff, thanks, might as well save $50. And John, thats what i read on thier site. Guess I'm gonna have to find "one helluva charming" (stolen from *Jules*) throw rug

I'm think the rug will really tie the room together.

That's cool, man.