Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single

Thanks so much for all the terrific help.

I would ask your dealer if you could borrow both to determine whether or not you want to biwire. I've never heard a difference. My ears are probably hosed.I've found that single wire is normally a larger gauge and sounds better than the equivalent bi-wire (which is usually much smaller gauge). I run Audioquest Rockefeller which is pretty thick twisted pair cable. The batteries last for years.

Biwiring must depend on the speaker brand...Alan Yun told me NOT to biwire my Silverline Preludes that he designed...he said they would be "less coherent". I biwired them anyway (yeah man...a rebel!), listened, put 'em back to single wire, listened again, and discovered he was completely right in a big way...they sound MUCH better single wired. He da man.

I'm not sure why this is better, but it is. My cables (LAT SS1000II) are single-wire at the amp end to bi-wire at the speakers (Spendor S8e) and this was definitely an improvement over the same cable in single-wire to single-wire with jumpers.

10-29-11: Wolf_garcia
Biwiring must depend on the speaker brand...Alan Yun told me NOT to biwire my Silverline Preludes that he designed

I've read this about Silverlines. I'm curious why the speaker maker would make his speakers biwireable but recommend against it.