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Biwiring make any sense?

I am on the verge of adding new floor standers to my setup as my room has enlarged.  Options being considered are KEF R7 Metas and PSAudio Aspen FR10's.  Both have biwireable terminals, the KEF has a jumper switch  and the PS has jumper wires to bridge the terminals.  The other option from dealing with the jumpers is to biwire the speakers.  In this case I could run a banana and a spade off each output terminal.  Is this even worth considering?  Biamping is not something I'm interested in, as I already am running off an integrated amp.  I had a pair of BassZillas before, each one of which had 3 sets of terminals, the top 2 being biwired, but that's a different deal (I don't have those cables anymore).  Speaker comments would be welcome too.  Amp is PSAudio Spectral Strata w/150 watts into 4 ohms.

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richmon
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20+ years ago I had Paradigm Studio 60's and 4 Marantz MA500 mono blocks, with bi-wiring. 

The dynamic range seemed better, the bass slam also a little better.

My take away is the same gains can be achieved by putting the money for the extra speaker wires into some other part of your system.

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gkelly
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Here is A video from Paul that might shed some light on your question

https://youtu.be/0q43Mbrl4gc

secretguy
1,697 posts
 

No.

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howardlee OP
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Paul McGowan up above goes into detail on the matter, says it doesn't matter with regard to biamping, then  recommends biwiring!  Holy smoke!  I knew he liked wires.  Meanwhile, the rather overworked video referenced on Matthew's post up above really does a good job showing that biwiring is nonsense from an electrical standpoint.  I have to admit I am skeptical about those thin metal jumper straps often supplied.  The KEF's I'm looking at has that internal so you would have to guess that's real wiring.  Don't know about the PSAudio speaker.  I would like to hear some thoughts on those 2 speakers I was looking at before I release the $$$. As far as the biwiring goes, I think if you have the cabling already (I do), at least it wouldn't hurt.  If you don't I would spend the money elsewhere, maybe starting with better jumpers.  Thanks for the comments!

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maxwave
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What about biwiring with  silver  for High frequencies  and  copper  for low frequencies ?

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