On my speakers, biwiring sounded extremely different tonally than jumpering low to high. Others noticed this too. However, it sounded very similar tonally to jumpering high to low, with the single wire sounding more focused, and the biwire seeming to flow a bit more freely in the bass. The difference between this latter two was small enough that I decided to stick with single wire jumpering high to low.
My results testing with my old Spendor FL9's were very different though and I preferred biwire at that time (AP Oval 9's).
On the Audience site there is a pointer to a discussion that suggests that the sonic "benefits" due to biwiring are really a form of phase incoherence (I think I got that right) rather than an actual improvement in accuracy; even that it might sound more exciting it's allegedly less accurate.
So what do we do, select the one we like that sounds better or the more theoretically correct one?
As for technical explanations, I'm the wrong person. I do work hard to make my own observations before comparing notes with others, so as to avoid being influenced.
And I am very happy with AU24, single wire, jumpered high to low.
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My results testing with my old Spendor FL9's were very different though and I preferred biwire at that time (AP Oval 9's).
On the Audience site there is a pointer to a discussion that suggests that the sonic "benefits" due to biwiring are really a form of phase incoherence (I think I got that right) rather than an actual improvement in accuracy; even that it might sound more exciting it's allegedly less accurate.
So what do we do, select the one we like that sounds better or the more theoretically correct one?
As for technical explanations, I'm the wrong person. I do work hard to make my own observations before comparing notes with others, so as to avoid being influenced.
And I am very happy with AU24, single wire, jumpered high to low.
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