I am stunned

Dekay; don't read too much into my agreement with Redkiwi. It's as Paulwp said, I agree with the "spirit" of Redkiwi's post. Otherwise, IMO, in the near term, we've had enough of going around and around around about AB testing, ABX testing, science vs subjectivism, XYZ testing, objective vs subjective etc etc etc.

You must be feeling a little "frisky" and looking for some action though, heh heh heh. Yes, there are a few things Liguy could do to narrow down what is causing his recent bout of happiness, but I'm content to just let him do it, and happy that he's found a system configuration that he is really grooving on. BTW, I use bi-wiring but I've done it for so long that I forget why. Maybe just because Vandersteen recommends it very highly. Cheers. Craig.

Garfish: I get it. Can Liguy use the internaly biwired cables both ways to test the difference in sound (hooking up both leads to the low frequency posts with a jumper) or is this not a good thing? It is of course up to Liguy as to whether he wants to perform the test. I do not know if I myself would want to touch a thing at this point if the sound is that nice. I swear that some of the times I have jockied cables around and then put them back in order, the sound was not as good afterward. I am going to pick up one of the "noise sniffer" pens described on the PS Audio site mentioned in another thread for my next cable venture and see if it will take some of the guess work out of it. It also drives my wife nuts when I keep jacking the cables around for days to get the sound back to where it was. Oh, and I wasn't really feeling frisky, just a little gas which is normal for my age. It has passed though.

Hi Dekay. What I saw was a guy (Liguy as it happens) reporting an experience here. He did not misrepresent it but perhaps he could have been more specific about what he was comparing. The way I saw it was that what he did was no conclusive proof of anything in particular, except that he was enjoying his music. My post was an emotional reaction to this thread diverting itself once again into the "who has the biggest speaker cable" discussion - if you get my meaning - and I found it to be a bit disrepectful of the spirit of Liguy's post. But it was an emotional over-reaction and I apologise. By the way, did you try the "Rainbow Foil"? I tried it briefly and did not find any musically significant difference, but will try it again.

Liguy your comments are not valid on biwire.You failed to take into account the reasons for the potential improvment in sound.
Was it really the biwire that made the difference.
You listened to them at the dealrs location.Different room different amps pre amps source.
If your Cd player at home is better than the dealers thats the source of your improvment not the biwire
Is your room a better set up probably.
Are your amps pre better suited to the Logans.
I suggest you hook them up jumpered and then biwired and listen.
I hope you see where i am coming from.As an EE you would think you would be more anylitical.
Where the volume levels identical,I could go on and on.

Wow - don't think I've ever seen a thread grow so fast.

Christ (Chstob) - point well taken. I'd used empirical to mean experimental (not pure math at all, just the opposite). In a real sense I don't feel that Liguy performed any kind of experiment, at least not pertaining to biwiring.

Dekay - what can I say? I'm a gambling man ;-). My relative certainty is based on a lack of any solid objective evidence that similarly measuring cables sound audibly different while the converse does hold (IIRC). I'm certainly willing to change my mind, though am personally disinclined to spend time swapping cables at home in an experimentally invalid environment.

Sugarbie - now I see what you were getting at w/Pavarotti. It's an interesting approach, but I suspect that there are substantial and meaningful physical differences between most of us and Pavorotti (make of that what you will . . .). The cable differences are easily quantified and most fall "in the noise" as far a effect on sound.

Redkiwi - if Liguy did as you said, I'd be in wholehearted agreement with you. But he didn't try anything whatsoever meaningful re: biwiring, yet claimed that as the cause of the wonderful new sound. It's like the Dunlavy SM-1 vs. SM-VI example I gave previously.

Oh, dear - looks like I'm setting myself up to be the next objectivist-in-the-barrel!

Jhunter