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

I do this with AudioQuest KE-4 (15 AWG pure solid silver) up top and Mont Blanc (12 AWG solid copper) on bottom. Used to use this in my main rig, and now brought it back in my 2nd rig. Always liked this combo (going back 15 years), and still like it now. Have compared it to many other AQ models - symmetric double bi-wire, internal biwire, single wire. There’s 2 cable configurations I’ve liked better (both much more expensive), but I like this combo better than all the rest. The AQ hybrids - with copper & silver in one cable - are quite good, but no more effective that this mixed biwire, IMO.

The knock against this approach would be a sacrifice of "coherence" from the asymmetric biwire - but I don’t hear ANY issues with coherence here. Silver helps bring out detail and sparkle. Copper keeps a nice overall warmth. And it all blends nicely. Speaking of coherence worries, my Tannoys pair a metal dome with a large paper cone - and they’re still incredibly coherent, to my ears!

My experience is it depends. 
 

I have listened to different cables and ultimately chose Kimber Kable bifocals XL. I am positive with enough time I could have found another excellent solution. 
 

Enjoy your journey!

PS Audio includes good jumpers, not the typical cheap metal plate...certainly worth trying jumpers the same cable as main cables,  and also separate double run, then decide if it's worth it...buy with return privileges and noting to lose...I use double run on FR20's...

 

 

@howardlee , it almost doesn’t matter what the subject is, the answers will range from "snake oil--it doesn’t have any effect on sonic performance" to "I hear a difference." Personally, I think it probably depends upon the speakers. If KEF or PSAudio provides any kind of tech support at all, it might be worth contacting them to find out what they think about b-wiring their speakers.

At the time I bi-wired I was running a pair of B&W 805s (the Matrix series) and I think B&W was saying that those speakers would benefit from bi-wiring. I felt that I heard an incremental improvement. At the time (going on 30 years ago) I was continuously trying to make upgrades and subtle improvements as I was into "the sum of all parts" theory, and I looked at bi-wiring as just another one of the parts.

 

I've already got matching cables to do it so I might as well.  Don't see how it would degrade anything and going to more expensive cabling at this point would likely be unnecessary exploration. 30 years ago I'd have been into comparing things (and did, a lot) but you are correct.