bi wiring

Davemitchell,

"The best way to single wire is to cross wire. Run your positive to the treble positive and your negative to the bass negative and jumper positves to each other and negatives to each other. This averages the loss in sonic performance evenly across the whole speaker. Try it".

I tried it and it does improve the overall balance of
my Dali speakers. I think they are one of the speakers
that are designed to be biwired (I just have not done it yet) and I did not like the sound of the speakers jumped
from top to the bottom as much, but rather "bottom to the
top".(Better overall) But this seems to have evened out the two pretty well.

Next stop will be biwire cables, as soon as I can figure
out which ones to buy.

Dali Icon 6
Jolida 302BRC
Cayin CDT-17A

Thanks,
Bob

Glad it helped Bob.

Davemitchell, I found your post above interesting and has motivated me to post what I'm currently doing. Normally I wouldn't have shared this. (Because it probably doesn't make sence).
I have 3 way Talon Firebirds that are biwireable. My Lamm M1.2 Ref. mono's have 2 sets ea. binding posts. On the top I'm using Stage III Concepts Vacuum Ref. They're mostly silver ribbons with a little gold in a vacuum. I used to jump down with Vacuum Ref. jumpers to good effect. Then I added Jena Labs (lots of high purity cooper) to the bass. Better. Then, and this is what I didn't want to mention, I put the Vacuum Ref. jumpers back in with both cable runs.
To me, in my system, this sounds best. Go figure.
Frank

Frank,

With very few exceptions, you really don't want to use two completely different models or brands of cables for biwiring. You want the two cables to be identical or at least very similar in character. I believe that the reason you like the sound better with the otherwise unnecessary jumpers back in is because what you are doing is blending the two cable's sounds together. By defeating the split crossovers for biwiring and running two speaker cables you are really just shotgun wiring your speakers with two different cables and averaging their sound across the whole speaker.

The advantages of true biwiring are not as important as having consistent and coherent sound from the top to bottom of your speakers.

I would wager that if you had two identical sets of whichever is your favorite cable, say the Stage III Vacuum Ref., you would like the sound much better with them biwired properly (with the jumpers removed).

Thanks, Dave.

Frank