Bi-Wire or Double Run of Single Wire ???

1happyman

03-21-2022 at 12:47I had my Linn Nexus Bi-wired for about 20 years.

After a great deal of tweaking and listening, I settled on the following config:

• A single run of UP-OCC copper cables with Banana connectors
  • Zavfino makes some very good UP-OCC cables
• 20" (0.5 metter) jumpers (DIY) made of
  • 2 x 18 gauge solid UP-OCC copper with airlok insulation.to bridge LF/HF terminals
  • with KLE Innovations Bananas
  • the Cables were plugged into the LF terminals
  • The 20" length was the result of a lot of testing by an aquaintance.

The KLE Innovations Bananas

• allow you to "Stack" the banana plugs
  • So you can attach the jumpers to the speakers
  • and then plug the cables into the banana plugs of the jumpers
• http://image99.net/blog/files/f6ae775e30339e2b0375b739988237b7-77.html
• They provide a much better connection than bare wire and most spade connectors
  • Furez Spades are the best I have tried

The only problem is the bananas take around 200 hours to break-in, but after that they sound amazing

If you want to know more about some excellent DIY cables just ask

Regards - Steve

I had my Linn Nexus Bi-wired for about 20 years. I went to a single wire and replaced the plated jumpers with high quality wire and the sound is notably better.

I have them coming to the posts from 180 degree opposite directions. The cable is fairly flexible and I bring the one set up from the bottom and the other pair down from the top. It surprised me how easily and well this worked out.

The real question is: Which option will allow for the best tightest connection? If you're trying to fit two pairs of spades onto the back of your amp it's unlikely you will be able to get a good connection. The last two sets of speaker cable I used were bi-wires. I prefer those to single runs of speaker cable with jumpers on the back of the speakers.

That's how I'm running my mains. My old amp had biwire terminals (Parasound), the new amp (Classe) doesn't. So I've got both spades on the one terminal and it sounds great.

Try them first and then sell them for something different, you will feel better about it then. LOL.

Save your self time.Sell both cables buy a better single run and jumper the speakers.

Ditto!

I third in all respects.
Chris

I agree with Dekay. It doesn't matter-- just be sure you get good contact and tight (not over tight) connections. Good Luck. Craig

I do not think that it makes any difference. I have used bare wire twisted together as one at the amp (for a shotgun setup) as well as bare wire plus bananas (the bananas on the low end). I thought that I could hear a difference when the bananas were on the high end though. More important is just having solid/tight connections however that is achieved. I have pretty good binding posts on my speakers and amps which still need to re-tightened every week or so (maybe it's from vibration and or heating and cooling, I don't know).