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Re: Bi-wire M60s
alan #222978 09/29/08 09:13 PM
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Thanks all for the complimentary comments.

Re: Bi-wire M60s
Ken.C #222991 09/29/08 11:02 PM
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 Originally Posted By: kcarlile
It'll add money to the cable manufacturer's bank accounts!

In large part, it's there because the market expects it.

There are two different things (well, more, really) that you can do with 2 sets of binding posts: bi-wiring (most likely no benefit whatsoever, see this link for a good, in depth explanation. Incidentally, that's what I did with my speaker cable, although I only did it for fun, not because I expected any sort of real benefit.

Bi-amping (as seen in the article above) is using two separate amplifiers to drive different portions of the speaker. It is slightly less sketchy in concept than biwiring, but you are still only likely to see benefits with an external crossover between the amps rather than the internal crossovers between the drivers.



Thanks, that article was pretty informative. It seems using a double 14 AWG connected instead of bi-wiring would work better. If one were going to use the double 14 AWG cable would there be a benefit to soldering the cables together as opposed to just twisting them together?


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Re: Bi-wire M60s
edmondwolfman #222993 09/29/08 11:04 PM
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Probably not. Mine are twisted at one end and connected to both sets of binding posts on the other, with the straps still in place. That way I don't have to worry if one gets pulled out! It's all redundant and stuff.

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