Bi-Wire

RKolluri: If the speakers are designed for bi-wiring it is usually better to do so. (B&Ws for one)

If you try to bi-wire, either connect all the wires to the A or B (not both) on your Onkyo receiver. The A/B on your receiver is meant for running separate pairs of speakers. I am not sure the load will be right going to the same speaker from A and B.

Some amplifiers have 4 binding post made for bi-wiring purposes, which are all on the same circuit.

Whether you buy bi-wire speaker cables or use 2 pairs of single cable is up to you. The results will be different, but one way is not necessarily better than the other. Depends on many factors, including the quality of the cables and your system.

If you already have a pair of good single cables, you could just buy another pair to bi-wire. This may not work if you have bananas (you could re-terminate them). You can put spades/pins or bare wire in the same binding post in your receiver.

Sugarbrie, read Marakanetz's article again. He's talking about a comparison of single-wiring with the jumpers against bi-wiring without the jumpers. His final configuration seems to be a single cable threaded through both pairs of binding posts, thus replacing the jumper with the cable itself.

If it is more practical to hook one cable up to the Speaker-A outputs and one cable up to the speaker-B outputs, there's no reason not to. When the speaker A and speaker B outputs are both switched on, they are tied together at the same point inside the amp.

Orthonormal: Yes I guess you could be right. But if so, then it seems he may have been more interested in comparing various jumper configurations with various jumpers ("trivial biwire") and never took bi-wiring seriously.

RKolluri: I still do not think you should connect one speaker to both the A & B terminals on the receiver. I have my Onkyo HT receiver manual here and it sais specifically NOT to do it; including a diagram of one speaker connected to both terminals with a big X through it. I am not a electrician, but depending if something is wired in series or in parallel, will double the current and voltage. I guess you could blow your speakers depending on the way the A & B are wired. If A & B were the same circuit, Orthonormal is right, it would not matter. Since they specifically tell you not to do it, probably means otherwise.

I want to B-wire it on the speakers side. So if I understand these posts.

The first cable will run from recvr Speaker(A) Left to the Left Speaker (which will be B-wired)

The second cable will run from recvr Speaker(B) Right to the Right Speaker (which will be B-wired).

A-Left-Recvr ----< Left Speaker
B-Right-Recvr ----< Right Speaker

Am I right???

No - if your receiver has two sets of posts for two sets of speakers like speaker A and Speaker B with two controls in the front labeled as such then you would hook them up :(A - left) to Speaker left one set of post--then (A - right) to speaker right same post on that speaker as (A - left). Then (B - left) to Speaker left on the post not used - Then (B - right) to Speaker right on the not used post. To run the system you must have the Speaker A and B buttons pressed in on the front of the receiver. Make sure the jumpers from the speakers are removed.

Yes -- If you are saying A and B for your two separate channels for one set of speaker outs meaning left speaker and right speaker then A - Left receiver to Left speaker and then B -- Right receiver to Right speaker only you have to do two runs to each speaker from the same channel.
Make sure the jumpers from each speaker are removed.