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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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stringreen
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I have Vandersteens also..,.I bi-wire, bi-amp and have everything in balanced mode.

lanx0003
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For those wizards who think they know everything...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908BWw1Bx4U

mark200mph
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Great video I do like gr research. He does good work. He did mention feedback in the amp. Would like to hear capitan involved.enjoy the music and the experiments.

thom_oz
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Biwiring can change the load on the crossover components and change the phase characteristics of the speaker. Biwiring sounds cleaner, essentially - IF the speakers are designed to take advantage of it. Vandersteen 2 is but one example.

 

Most wire is cheap. Get a roll of standard speaker wire at Best Buy or Walmart and experiment. If you don't hear a difference, what did you lose - maybe $25?

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howardlee OP
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The KEF R7 Metas I am looking at have a switch to select for biwiring versus not. One would assume this would mean some crossover compatibility or at least negating the jumpers but I really don’t have any good way of knowing. I have two cable sets (Clear Day) so I can run a comparison without buying anything new.

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