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Generally Speaking

Okay, stick with me because no matter how many times I rewrite this it still sounds stupid. Lets say I'm looking at "Company X" and they offer four different speaker cables, lets call them A, B, C, and D (A being the best). "A" cost 1500.00, and "B" costs 800.00. Generally speaking is it better to go with "A" or have "B" bi-wired with the result that both sets now cost 1500.00? I know something like this must have been posted before, but 1) I can't find it, and 2)this might give new members a chance to post(no one likes posting on a dead thread). Thank you all in advance.
tbadder
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garfish
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Vandersteen Audio states that moderately priced bi-wired speaker cables will easily out-perform a single run of more expensive cable. Of course this is with Vandersteen speakers that have been specifically designed to be used bi-wired.

I personally believe that cables in the middle of a companies line to be probably the "best value" wires, ie they provide 90-95% of the sonic quality of the company's most expensive stuff. Cheers. Craig
sdcampbell
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Garfish and I are in general agreement on this topic, although my own experience is that the "knee" in the incremental improvement curve may be lower than the #2 cable in a company's product line. As with nearly all high-end audio, you pay more -- typically a LOT more -- to gain that last bit of improvement.
cornfedboy
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your presumptive formula does not apply to a number of cable companies' price lists; i.e., some class "b" bi-wire sets cost more than twice the price of a single run of class "a." that being said, my speakers of choice, avalon, have migrated from tri-wireable to single-post terminations, based upon their findings (and mine) that there is NO improvement from single to muti-cable terminations if your speakers, including most importantly xovers, are well designed and implemented. -cfb
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