Biwired-Dunlavy V- Bass reduced why?

hmmm ... new cables typically need some time to break in.
Play them for a month - I've had two different pair of new speaker cables which both changed significantly during breakin. They'll probably 'come & go' for awhile before finally setting in.

Hi Bob, That kind of does makes sense now I think back. These cables have may be 20- 30 hrs burn time on them. At first hook up it was other way around, bass was predominant and highs were rolled off. Now mids and high seems to have settled but bass has a little kink...

May be I will burn them more...

Thanks.

You definitely do not want to use jumpers when you bi-wire. Speakers that are designed to be bi-wired sound much better when you run them that way. With speakers that just have a second set of terminals, it makes little or no difference. The Dunlavys were designed to be bi-wired. One of the benefits is that bi-wiring bypasses certain components in the crossover, which increases transparency and might also improve dynamics. In any case, don't use jumpers.

Thanks 9rw. I looked in past threads but could not find much onfo on Biwiring 'crossover mechanism' but did not find enough info.

I played with my upstairs Dunlavy IV (easily accessible) which i use with jumpers and lower terminals. Since hi and low pass terminals are not labled, I experimented. I removed jumpers and hooked speaker cables to lower terminal only, thinking that only woofers will sound but no sound came out at all. Similarly I hooked speakers cables to upper terminals only thinking that mids and highs will produce sound, but once again no sound came out!!

So how does the crossovers (high and low pass) works with biwired cable without jumpers? Does two pair of cables connected to upper and lower terminal acts as jumpers thru amp connection at the other end?

Which terminal are high pass and which ones are the low pass?

Thanks.

i suggest you try a jumpered, single-wire configuration with your new cables and see if that makes any difference in the bass. This means you put the jumpers in and connect both + leads to one of the speaker's + terminals and both - leads to one of the - terminals. This should help you diagnose whether it is the cable or the biwiring that is giving you less bass than you used to have.

Your experience with trying just the one set at a time and not getting any sound at all is curious.