Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire

Quad-wired? I saw only 4 speaker terminals on the N800s I had making bi-wiring the maximum possible.

Bi-amped and quad-wired? Seems more than compulsive.

Kal

My personal experience is there may be some benefit separating the LF from the MF/HF, but beyond that I would upgrade to a higher quality cable before buying more of a lower quality cable, given the same amount of money to work with. That is what I did with my tri-wired Alon's which ended up sounding better with a better quality bi-wire pair and jumpers. Keep in mind there are a lot of influencing factors including the added capacitance resulting from more wire. Therefore, each case can be different.

Kr4,

As I stated, mine are the big 800's, not the N800.

The benefit of actively biamping with quad wiring of the 800's is not a subtle improvement! The active biamping, with the Krell KBX, was the biggest single impovement that I have ever made to my system.

Know before thy speak. :)

Richard
PS> I know of one guy that had his 800's set up as I do. Before selling them he bought the N800S. He compared the two in his own home and sold the N800S.

Well, I did miss your reference to "big B&W800's" but I also tried to Google them and could find no references. Can you provide one?

Kal

Kal, check the archives at Stereophile, I think Richard is referring to the B&W 800s that Lewis Lipnick had and reviewed back in the 90s?