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To Bi-wire or not?

I was using Tara Labs shot-gun cable to connect my Usher speakers, leaving the jumpers in. When I switched to Blue Jeans cable and true bi-wire and removed the jumpers. I hear no improvement, in fact i lost some bass. I contacted Blue Jeans to see about cable burn-in but they said burn-in is a myth. I have heard that bi-wiring a speaker with low end cable is better than using higher quality cable in non bi-wire application. Any thoughts?
tbromgard
jylee
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They told you cable burn in is a myth, but biwiring is not?
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okeeteekid
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well guys, i wanted to try an experiment, i also have a pair of infinity kappa 9's and we all know how hard they are to run, so for the first time i tried to bi wire them to see if it has something to do with low impedance speakers, when bi wired they sound like you do not have the 4 twelve inch woofers connected (no bass at all) and when they are connected using the single wire bass galore, so i think that it must be a current thing, the amps i am using are two adcom 565 mono blocks, i wonder what is happening.
greg
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almarg
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Hi Greg -- How long are the cables? What is the gauge of the wire used in the single-wire configuration? And what is the gauge of the wire which carries the low frequencies in the bi-wire configuration?

Regards,
-- Al
buconero117
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double blind tests prove it is of no value.
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daveyf
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Tbromgard, as you using two seperate cables per speaker?
If so, are you sure that the connections are in correct polarity at the amp and the same at the speakers?
Also, I find it very helpful to make sure that the routing of the cables is as direct as possible without too much parelleling if possible.
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