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How does bi-wiring work?

To start, I do bi-wire my main speakers. However, I am somewhat confused about how bi-wiring works given that the speakers have internal crossovers and the signals received by them have the same full frequency range going to both sets of terminals.

I confess that I don't see any difference from single wiring in terms of the speaker's performance. What am I missing?

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knotscott
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@davetheoilguy 

The main advantage I have found of bi-wiring is the maid occasionally deep cleans the house and somehow manages to unplug very secure connections.

She pulled one of the negative cables to my B&W 800 out and I didn’t notice for a week.  Ran fine.

You should have lost output from a driver if you bi-wired correctly with a different set of cables to separate inputs of  independent drivers.  Are there still jumpers of some sort between the inputs?  

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mijostyn
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@tomic601 I don't think he can.

davetheoilguy
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@curiousjim 

you are correct in the positive poles.  Neutral (“ground”) is common.

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curiousjim
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Maybe I need more coffee, but ???

deep_333
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Biwiring works and you can hear subtle differences in a high resolution room. All my speakers are biwired.

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