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Maggie1.6 bi-wire or single?

I have a pair of Maggie 1.6's and they are now bi-wired with Alpha Core MI2 Veracity and soon I will have a single run of Acoustic Zen Satori. Ever since I read an article where the reviewer prefered a single run to "mantain the coherance" I have always wondered if this is noticable. I am leaning toward the single run as I would like to preserve this quality if indeed it is true.

What do you Audiogoners prefer single or bi-wire?

thanks in advance,
Phil
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banksfriend
132 posts
 
yup.biwire.
rgd
656 posts
 
Back when I had my 1.5's I used AP Oval 12 bi-wires and then went to HT Pro 9+ single wires with HT jumpers and prefered the HT. Not really a fair comparison as the cables were not from the same manufacturer not were they the same model but it may indicate that a very good single wire application may better (depending on your ears) a "lesser quality" bi-wire application. As always YMMV...
valhalla
9 posts
 
I've tried bi-wired MIT Terminator 2's and Silver Sonic T-14's, but got better sound with a single run of XLO Reference Type 5 speaker cables. This combination is the best so far in my system.
audiokinesis
2,742 posts
 
Philojet,

In my experience, bi-wiring is better than a single run of the same wire.

However, I find that a single run of a significantly better wire will sound better and be more bang for your buck than bi-wiring.

So in most cases I would advise upgrading to a better single run wire over bi-wiring with your present wire.

By the way I don't sell Acoustic Zen, but that's damn good stuff.

Duke
fineberg
151 posts
 
I bi-wire my Maggies, but I agree that a better single run could be the way to go IF (and this is the all mportant if) you replace the maggie jumper with a jumper from very good speaker wire with excellent plugs - zip plugs, or bare wire or maybe WBT midline bananas. The factory jumper are a big drag on the sound and getting rid of them is probably close to half of the benefit when people first go to bi-wire.
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