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To Bi Wire or not to Bi Wire that is the question?

Just brought home a new pair of KEF R3 bookshelf speakers. This is my first pair of serious speakers. So far I'm pretty happy, but I'm still breaking them in. After listening for a while I decided to research the bi wire option. I did a bunch of reading on the subject, the opinion seems to be 50 /50, so I decided to try it for myself. Immediately I heard a difference, the mid range was more pronounced and the low frequencies were deeper and tighter. I'm not sure about the high frequencies, they were pretty good to begin with.To make sure I wasn't imagining this, I asked my wife to listen, she said it sounded richer (her words). I only used 12 awg wire I had laying around, but if I like this better, I'll invest in some money in more serious cable. I thought I would put this out there and see what other peoples experiences were.
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hifiman5's avatar
hifiman5
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@mzkmxcv.   You might want to be a bit cautious using the word, "impossible".  More often than not use of that word leads to fallacy.
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twoleftears
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Not a fair comparison.  To bi-wire, you're using twice the length of cable.  Compare better quality single wire+jumpers that costs the same as the doubled-up bi-wire cable, then decide.
mzkmxcv
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@hifiman5 
 
Don’t have to tread lightly when there are no caveats. Imaging s based on the off-axis response on the two speakers and also on your positioning of the speakers. It is literally impossible to alter the off-axis without also altering the on-axis. Channel separation/isolation is the only aspect which affects imaging, but bi-wiring can’t improve that.
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