Folks can say what they want about bi wiring, but Vandersteen designs all his speakers to be bi wired and they do sound better doing it. I trust my ears. I know what engineers may say, but again, the ears don't lie. There are plenty of things that can't always be explained in audio and that could be because we don't have the measurements for them yet.
Since Richard has no skin in the wire business, there is no way he'd espouse this if it didn't make a difference for the positive in his speakers.
I've also heard them bi amp'd. Once in a store, I didn't like it. He used less than stellar amps doing this. Another time when I heard at a friends house, it sounded the best I've heard the Treo's sound. He was using all Audio Research amps and I think keeping in the same company made the world of difference. JMHO
For for those engineers who dispute what I am hearing, the fact is that you can't because you aren't in my head, lol. All of audio is subjective. The first time I heard bi wiring of the Vandersteen's, I had no idea that he was changing anything in the system. I was listening to a track and then he took a few minutes and unhooked the second run, but I didn't know it. It was pretty easy to tell which was which. I know many who feel the same way and some, who have never heard the Vandy's both ways, make statements about how they sound....even though they have never heard them. Just saying.