Dumb question. How about owning biwire speaker cables but the speakers have only two terminals instead of 4? Is the signal split and flows into the naked or unhooked up wire? Any negative impact on the sound from that?
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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@kclone , I make no claim to have a real tight grasp on electrical theory, but it seems to me that what you have described would be sub-optimal. The signal would be starting out on what seems to me to be one gauge of wire but then arriving at the speaker on a narrower gauge of wire. What you could do in that scenario, I think, is if the termination at the speaker end was spades, you could double them up so you had two on each speaker post. |
Sure, if you just had one set of terminals. Then you're basically giving yourself a fatter wire. No harm there if you already have those wires, but if you're just starting out just buy the bigger wire! If you have two sets of terminals, then you can avoid using jumpers, and maybe that's a positive. Beamping seems like it makes more theoretical sense, but then you're getting into the old cost vs benefit thing, which is ok. |
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