Wiring two post speakers with biwire cable

Turnaround: It is OK to connect the 4 ends at the amp & then parallel the both pairs at the speaker end. I have a similar situation & confirmed its safety with none other than Mr. Bruce Brisson, who happened to pick up my call. However do not "turnaround" the cable's signal direction; it was not designed to operate that way. If you ever replace or rewire your speakers to bi-wirable mode, the cable would have been run in incorrectly & would require considerable time & effort to properly reverse back to normal.

Most amps with 4 binding posts for easy bi-wiring are coming out of the same circuit inside the amp (they're just split into 4), so I agree what Bob is saying is OK. (And don't reverse the direction).

For this proposal to make sonic sense, don't the speakers have to be already set up for bi-wiring, ie have an internal cross-over built in to accomodate it? I can see why you could attach the wires as proposed, but can't see any advantage to it without the internal crossover. Craig

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You will want to connect the wires at the amp as they shold be. At the speaker end you NEED to connect all 4 wires as they should be + and + to + post and - and - to the - post (unless using phase reversing then keep togother ++ and --and reverse). If you do not you MUST TAPE off the lose wires as they connect as a single + and single - wire at the amp which means that if not connect at the speaker as well you have two hot wire floating around there that can short out. Also by connecting the 4 wires you are just increasing you wire size, which in almost all cases is a good thing. Good luck Bob

Craig (Garfish) is correct that bi-wiring makes little sense if your speakers have only one set of binding posts. The advantage of bi-wiring your speakers will NOT be realized unless the speaker has two internal crossovers to provide a separate signal to the mid/high frequency drivers, and another to the bass/low frequency driver. The two signals your amp will send to the speaker will simply be combined at the speaker's crossover. There is even a chance that you may degrade the sound, since using the set of bi-wires will simply increase the capacitance that the signal sees.