2. speakers
  3. 1247016622

Freaky speaker experience:

I have the Nuforce 9SE pre's and amps. I had them attached to my Focal JMLABS 936; bi-wired at the speaker but single ended at the amp. They sounded soooo crappy (tinny, bright, fatiguing) that I was ready to toss them off the second floor window. :) Could'nt understand. For kicks, I single wired it using the original jumpers. Now they sound awesome. About 10 cd's later still awesome.????? They sound different but as good as my Totom Mani's. Any ideas about the bi-wiring? Too much juice going to the high end?
cepages
cepages OP
4 posts
 
Plus, my wife hears the same thing. Same albums. I go back and forth between my Totems and these. Before I added the jumpers we both disliked the Focals. Now, we are feaked and stunned. We don't understand.

I also am not ready to sell the Focals now. I would have given them away two days age. But I want to make sure it isn't my imagination..... Placebo......
bokfudo
58 posts
 
Sometimes less is more...

Decent jumpers allow both speaker terminals to look like a single electrical connection (almost) while with a bi-wire you are at the mercy of the "voicing" introduced by the additional wire. I am guessing in your case the speaker wire used is not the best match which became obvious in the bi-wire set up.

Had a similar experience once (lost 1/2 the bass) with bi-wire went back to original jumpers and was happy again!
jrinkerptdnet
430 posts
 
switch back to bi-wire and see if you still notice the effect
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
bokfudo has this figured out...the 'feature' of bi-wiring does not guarantee any improvement.
missioncoonery
1,221 posts
 
Had the same experience with a pair of Avalons back in the 90s..never knew why
More to discover