To bi wire or not bi wire

CHORD:

In all the research we have carried out, a single wire speaker cable out-performs a bi-wire cable of equivalent cost. This makes a lot of sense; the single wire speaker cable has two high quality conductors and the bi-wire cable requires four. So for a given budget, we believe that a single wire cable will always out-perform the equivalent bi-wire cable, so much so that we no longer produce dedicated bi-wire cables..."

miller carbon:

For the same money you can always do better with one than splitting the money into 2. Duh.

Shakespeare:

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Conclusion:

Don't.

For bi-wiring the argument for shorter length is one of the arguments that speak against it...


But they are other arguments...

I will give a citation from an interesting article:

«We have discovered that if your speakers have four binding posts then you may take advantage of the bi-wiring option and that you will need twice as much cable as before. We theorised and proved by measurement, the counter-intuitive notion that the high and low frequencies travel only in their designated cables. We have also shown by measurement that the theory that this would reduce intermodulation distortion caused by non-linearity in the speaker system is proven.»

https://www.qacoustics.co.uk/blog/2016/06/08/bi-wiring-speakers-exploration-benefits/



My Mission speakers are designed to be bi-wired and I listen to them in the 2 flavor, and the bi-wiring gives more details.... Also I dont think in my case that 6 feet of cables versus only 3 feet for each speakers make an audible negative differences...

This is an explanation from another known speakers cie. Mirage-Om-7s

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I must add that they are no universal accepted one opinion about bi-wiring…. To know if it will be positive for our speakers we must try...

IF your speakers are incapable of correct impulse response, don’t bother with bi-wire.

IF on the other hand, your speakers are time and phase correct, then an external biwire matters.  The physics are simple. Shakespeare never studied with Tesla.

tomic601

It seems then that the speakers company’s engineers like Mission who decided to design their speakers for specifically be bi-wired must had studied with Tesla...:)

And the refutation of the benefits of bi-wiring must be faulted by some Shakespearian misunderstanding in some faulty speakers installation or design...

Thanks for your spiritful remark....

My best...