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"Undo" biwiring?

If I have speakers with bi-wire terminals and only want to use single wire cables, is there any reason I can't desolder the wires from the low frequency posts and solder them to the high frequency posts or vice versa? Seems to make a lot more sense then adding expensive jumpers (which have made a difference in my experience), yet I have never seen this done or suggested. I would also need one less set of binding posts if I wanted to upgrade.
eugene81
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Elizabeth, thanks.

kr4, not sure you understand what I'm asking and I don't understand your response. Use the same wires as jumpers instead of jumpers...?

Kernelbob, good jumpers have made significant improvements in my experience. Anyway, I do not want to turn this into a discussion of biwire vs. single wire, which has been done to death and always gets contentious, and I am not talking about a bi-amp situation.
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My point is that soldering the wire internally and using it as a jumper are entirely equivalent if done competently. So, if you think that soldering the cheaper wire internally will work better than using the same wire as a jumper, it will be due only to your belief and/or inability to see that it is not an "expensive" jumper.
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kr4, not sure you understand what I'm asking and I don't understand your response. Use the same wires as jumpers instead of jumpers...?
What Kal (KR4) is suggesting is using jumpers that consist of the same kind of wire that is used for the speaker's internal connections to the binding posts.

Assuming that the required jumper length is short, and given that most and probably all predictable speaker cable effects can be expected to be proportional to length, that sounds like a good approach to me.

Regards,
-- Al
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No. I am saying that regardless of the wire he chooses, it doesn't matter whether he solders it internally or wires it as a jumper externally, it will make no difference at all.
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No. I am saying that regardless of the wire he uses, it doesn't matter whether he solders it internally or wires it as a jumper externally, it will make no difference at all.

If he wants to rewire internally, he is only making more bother for himself.

(This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. 2-3" of wire is unimportant.)
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