Bi-wiring speakers

Jadem6: Fair point. An awful lot of statements appear on Audiogon without the explicit disclaimer, "This is only my opinion, but..." On the other hand, once you mention "science," you automatically sound more authoritative, even if you're full of potting soil. I'm not a scientist, and I couldn't prove to you myself that biwiring doesn't work if my life depended on it. But I've read several explanations of the electrical impact of biwiring which, as far as this layman can tell, clearly suggest that the signal that reaches your speaker terminals is exactly the same whether you biwire or not. And I've never read any cogent explanation for why they'd be different (though I've seen some quite fanciful attempts!). My aim is only to suggest that a little skepticism is in order, and I'll try to be more explicit about that in the future.

Excellant explaination Jostler3, I find it much easier to believe in your point when you state things like "I couldn't prove to you myself that biwiring doesn't work if my life depended on it. But I've read several explanations..." Thank-you for taking my point without defence, very impressive! J.D.

How about this senerio. Lets take a speaker like the Aerial 10t that has seperate crossover boards and as stated in the manual is bi-ampable and bi-wireable. Out of the single pair of speaker outputs from the amp you connect 2 pair of speaker cable to the speaker. But use a larger guage cable to the low freq crossover because the large driver just loves the less resistive flow from the larger cable. But use a thinner cable for the high freq crossover because the mid and tweet just sound so much more lush and yields more detail to the sound using the higher quality thinner cable. Now i'm no scientist either but i do read and can sure hear. Any opinions.

There are many sites that will technically expalin bi-wiring
and the way their crossover design is different than single
wire crossover, and how that effects the sound......go to google.com and search bi-wire design speakers.

The valid argument is do two sets of $500 speaker cables on biwire speaker sound better than a $1000 single set speaker
cables? Obviously some customers and some speaker designers
feel not, and I say that is a legit point of debate.

Mikec, I do hear improvement in sound with biwires I have tried, but it all goes back to my point above about what is most cost effective for owner.........if money is no object by all means biwire.

Thanks Megasam, i do own the 10t's and i do run seperate cable prs and do hear a noticeable improvement in sound. Maybe some day when i have another 4k to burn i'll add another amp but in the meantime don't touch my Bi-Wire please. It sounds good the way it is . Where are those copper straps anyway!!! -------------->