Single vs Bi-wire Speaker Cable


I'm going to purchase some AQ speaker cables, and am considering bi-wired AQ Robin Hood Zero vs full range William Tell Zero (with quality jumpers). The bi-wired RH is about $500 more expensive than the full range WT, but on a comparable basis, WT is the more expensive cable. Any thoughts on sound quality between the options I described above would be greatly appreciated.

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My Revel`s wiring diagram wants the amp connected to the 'HIGH' terminals.

I have Vandersteens as well.......separate cables for each leg.....2 wires for the highs, 2 wires for the lows....

Every time I’ve experimented on my Tannoys, they’ve sounded better bi-wired. They’re an ideal use case for symmetric 50/50 bi-wire: a 2-way with 2nd order crossover at 1.1 kHz, which gives a much closer split of high/low energy than most speakers.

My conceptions from these experiments are as follows:

  • When biwiring I like at least 12awg per half (12awg high + 12awg low), or else the sound is not as rich & weighty as I prefer
  • I like a lot of silver (50% or more) in the cable, or I start to miss detail (especially with Audioquest cables)
  • When not bi-wiring, high quality jumpers absolutely matter. Tannoys came with thin Acrolink jumpers, which are supposed to be good quality but sound awful. I also have some thick VanDenHul jumpers which sound decent-ish. But Audioquest’s Jupiter jumpers (pure silver) are best of all.

I tried AQ Thunderbird Zero (100% copper), without matching biwire cable, and it didn’t work well for me, even with the premium Jupiter jumpers - I was missing too much detail versus my older silver cables. I’d like to explore the new AQ line with proper bi-wire partner cables, but quite honestly the Thunderbird Zero experience damped my enthusiasm. The hyped "Zero" tech wasn’t enough to make up for that, at least. Also they have a real problem with these new braids going hairy/fuzzy and looking like crap :(