Speaker jumpers and hook up choices Question

"For many years now speakers come with 4
terminals for bi amp/bi wiring. research has shown few
people do either but it continues."

"What research are you referring to? On this web
site the opposite is most likely true. Most people biwire if
the speakers allow for it."

Zd542... you think so? Maybe we should do a new thread
and see. I haven't bi-wired in decades, even if my
speakers allowed it.

IMHO, good quality jumpers and good quality speaker
cables will almost always sound better.

I'm going to start a new thread and ask this very
question...

At the very least, its given serious consideration. I think the big issue is weather to use 2 single runs of lesser cable, or one better cable and jumpers. Personally, I take it on a case by case basis. My Vandersteen's need to be biwired for best sound. My Wilson's don't even have the option. With most other speakers, I usually prefer one higher quality run over 2 lesser cables.

Also, I was referring to this website in particular. You'll probably find that more people biwire here, than anywhere else. Another factor to consider, at least here, is that people often way overspend on cables.

I agree but this website is tiny % of people who buy speakers Many audio guys do not do it .In fact I read an article last summer were it was mentioned that some spekaer makers are going to go back to a pair of terminals. THANK YOU!! I like the Vandersteens better when I went in and tied the hi and low together It tried the lesser (Oval 12) bi wires on several speakers and my Oval 9s with any junmper sound better to me.

Thank you AL Can you expand on that at all? I have to draw that on paper to see it I had PSB Goldi and Mirage m7si were it was easy to take the back plate off and tie the high and low together and then put it back to riginal. I felt the speakers sounded closest to the croos hookup thast way.

Yes, draw it out and I think what I said will become clear. When you do that, keep in mind that current flows in a "complete circuit" from the amplifier to the speaker, then through the speaker, and then back to the amplifier. And keep in mind also that the speaker's crossover network will prevent the high frequency content of the signal from flowing through the low frequency driver(s), and will prevent the low frequency content of the signal from flowing through the high frequency driver(s).

Aside, that is, from frequencies that are in the area of the crossover point between drivers, where high frequency and low frequency drivers will both be reproducing the same frequencies to some degree. How wide a range of frequencies that area encompasses will depend on the slopes of the particular crossover. "Slopes" meaning 6 db/octave or 12 db/octave or 18 db/octave, etc., which describes how sharply the crossover cuts off frequencies that are not near the crossover frequency.

Regards,
-- Al