Biwiring speakers - why it works.. and why it doesn't - includes budget tweekery

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• PA

  @papabear1417 · 3 years ago

  Keeping  it simple. That's the thing. Don't fiddle. Enjoy the music and the feeling it gives.

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• CO

  @coccolocco · 3 years ago (edited)

  I had know idea about bi-wire until fairly recently, always wondered why my Wharfdales had two connections on them 😋. This video is the clearest explanation of it though.

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• DA

  @daijobu_9 · 2 years ago

  Funny stories about language in UK.<br>As regards the subject, it was indeed a bit confused from time to time but at last we have a grasp on what&apos;s your thoughts on it.<br>Thank you!<br>It was helpfull. I was about to test it anyway but now I understand more what it is about.

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• JA

  @jasonme3557 · 3 years ago

  I think Bi-Amp is the better reality. In my collage days early 90&quot;s I had two Adcom GFA amps. The big 545 and 535 100 watts and 60 watts.<br>I had a HK pre-amp and both amps driving a large set of Mission Speakers. The big adcom powered the lows and the 60 did the highs. I was great and a huge difference. <br>Loud boy could this go loud and when you only 21-23 in school Loud is good. <br>Good time...

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• BW

  @bw8827 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Never been a believer of bi-wiring, you&apos;re right Phil, it was a fad that people bought into, including me who had TRI-wired Linn Kaber&apos;s, at one time. Also, being a cynic, it wouldn&apos;t surprise me if deals were done between speaker and cable manufacturers. Any bi-wire speakers I&apos;ve bought I&apos;ve always replaced the crappy brass plated links with decent wired links, as you also pointed out. Spending more on a decent single speaker cable will often cost less than a bi-wire cable or two pairs of cables and give superior results. Higher end speaker manufacturers are now thankfully producing only single wire products.

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• MA

  @macpdm · 1 year ago

  I remember bi wiring my missions and couldn’t tell a difference.

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• CO

  @COLDMKULTRA · 3 years ago (edited)

  Yes, a video on bi-amping would also be very interesting Phil! 👍

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• PA

  @paulwhite1109 · 3 years ago

  Interesting as always Phil. Can you include monoblocs when you do bi-amping too (I know you don&apos;t have much time to read these now). I used to bi-wire but now just get 1 length of cable that&apos;s twice the price with a bit of that cable as a jumper between posts as you mentioned.<br><br>By the way, if you do see this, I&apos;m waiting for my Ariston RD80 with Mission arm as discussed. Looking forward to it.

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• PE

  @PeteNice29 · 1 year ago

  Biamping is especially useful when using, for example, a tube amp on the highs and a solid state for the low end. Plenty of permutations are possible, which is part of the fun.

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  @bertiefigueres · 11 months ago

  Thank you so much for your video. It really helped me to answer a question that had been on my mind...<br><br>I have speakers capable of bi-wiring. I recently bought a Marantz PM6007 amplifier with two sets of speaker output posts, Speaker A and Speaker B, and have been wondering if I should bi-wire my speakers. I naturally assumed that each speaker post was connected to its own independent amplifier circuit within the amp, and therefore wanted to double up on the power getting to the speakers (not that I need it, but if it&apos;s there...).<br><br>Well, you brought out a very interesting point I hadn&apos;t considered, and which questioned my initial assumptions.<br><br>You mentioned that the external speaker posts are not necessarily connected to independent internal amps. You made the point that there might be only one internal amp per channel and that the external speaker posts would both be connected to the same internal amps by connecting them up internally via something like a relay. In effect the left channel of both speaker posts are connected to a &quot;left amp&quot; and the right channel posts are connected to a &quot;right amp&quot;. So the perceived advantage I though I would get from bi-wiring would not really materialise as the good quality speaker cable I use have such little resistance that it will make no audible different to the signal path.<br><br>I did a quick search online and it turns out that this is exactly what my Marantz amp does (according to Google AI). Internally there is just a single left channel and a single right channel, which are shared by both Speaker A and Speaker B posts. So there is no real benefit from bi-wiring, and it just creates extra clutter behind the stereo with the extra cables.<br><br>Thank you for that insight, and I can now put that question to bed. Cheers. 👍

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• PH

  @philipw7058 · 2 years ago

  My biwire cable from kimber uses two different gauge in on run,one for bass and one for the mid and highs,biwire works if the designer built it into the speaker to have that option and it is always cleaner

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  @H188ki · 3 years ago

  Hi all. Yes very interesting, I have had speakers with this ability , &nbsp;and the ones I have now the &nbsp;Q acoustic concept 20s have the ability . &nbsp; But I’ve never ever tried it, &nbsp; &nbsp;but I have upgraded my cable from vary basic stuff to van den hul &nbsp;clear water cable , &nbsp; which to my aged ears was a major upgrade . &nbsp; Now if I then went and invested in another set to by wire would I see a difference at least equal to my existing cables , &nbsp; well I’ll leave that question to the good people who follow this channel