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Single ended speaker cables or Shot gun config?

I would like to hear the opinions from the forum regarding using a high-end single ended speaker to my speakers and then use two of that companies matching jumpers. My speakers have three speaker terminals, bass, mid and highs. They came with bridging straps but I prefer proper jumpers. So that is option one. Option 2 is to buy the same company's speaker cable but in a shot gun formation at the speaker end. So single ended at the amp end and then has two red cables and two black at the speaker end. In this formation I would still need one set of jumpers.

What do you guys recommend in my situation. I sort of fee if I go the shot gun bi wire config I'm splitting the cables in two at the speaker end as opposed to running one solid speaker cable to one of the terminals and using matching jumpers.

Opinions??

Thanks in advance 

usherzaleg
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tomic601
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And if you understand the physics… the big bass signal …expanding / collapsing field of the bass cable modulates the mid and HF cable… hence why a shotgun bi wire is superior… your milage and ear/brain may vary…

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audioman58
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Audiophile1 I never said Bass was not important ,just not as critical to the ear more forgiving ,the ear is most sensitive to the highs and 75% of music goes through the most critical  Midrange.thats where more $$ goes into the speaker cable 

I owned an Audiostore over a decade,and we did tons of experiments Always put your better loudspeaker cable  for mids,  highs,lesser quality Big gauge for bass 

the Kimber 8TC or 12 Tc great bang for the buck for bass.

 

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jayctoy
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Op if my amp has 4 post binding each side , same with speakers , I will do double biwire. If my amp has four binding post only I I prefer jumper.

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luvtubes69
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Do what sounds best.  Experimentation then implementation. 

tekaudiospecialties1
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IME bi-wiring is always an upgrade. Go for that. It reduces IMD and results in increased clarity. Passive bi-amping, a further upgrade. Same reason basically, but now even more so.

Below image is a friend's super system in Mar '24, passive bi-amping the Audiovectors with 2x prs of TK Ultra EXB7 monos and using AQ Dragon speaker cables (bass and regular sets). Umm, it sounded quite good ;) 

And please also be careful that high capacitance cables (as the Kimber are somewhat known for) can cause some amps stability issues (eg classic Naim, ..).

Merry Christmas! TK

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I-XdPR2dn2aAOwRHOd2QXDz8glK4DlgJ/view?usp=sharing

 

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