Has biwire speaker cabling become "old" ?

"03-22-15: Jl35
Wondering Wolf if Alan told you why he has biwire connectors on the speakers if they specifically should Not be biwired..."

To biamp.

Hard to imagine many speakers at that price point are actually bi-amped. Does having the second set of terminals and then using a jumper, degrade the performance you would get from a single terminal/single cable?

03-22-15: Jl35
Does having the second set of terminals and then using a jumper, degrade the performance you would get from a single terminal/single cable?

That's hard to say, since I've never heard any speakers that offer both options, single pair of binding posts and double pair of posts.
It would make for an interesting experiment though.

Just curious if that by offering the extra terminals to the very few who will bi-amp, that performance to those who single amp will be compromised...seems logical that adding extra cables and extra terminals will degrade performance, but logical doesn't always hold out...

My guess is that people want to biwire things regardless of how they sound so Yun stuck the posts on to satisfy customer choice issues, or he just had biwire panels hanging around and figured he's use them. I'm willing to bet a VERY small percentage of hifi freaks biamp speakers so I doubt that's the reason. He also warned me to be careful not to lose the jumpers...that was pretty funny.