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Tannoy Speakers & Bi-wiring

I have a pair of Tannoy Canterbury speakers using Atma-Sphere amps. Currently I am using single wire (audience AU24) and the supplied brass jumper. Wondering what the experience of any Tannoy users out there is in bi-wiring and what kind of wires you have used. I'm thinking about trying this with a budget of about $1,000 used so really can't get into the mega expensive cables. Really curious.
redcarerra
pani
1,231 posts
 
I have played around with Biwiring with my earlier ATC and my present Tannoy Turnberry SE. With ATC, biwiring has a tremendous effect on the positive side, no negatives at all. With Tannoy however I prefer single wired sound. It is tighter and more coherent with single wiring. Biwiring makes it sound less grounded and more hifi overall. Go for a high quality speaker cable and Tannoy's own jumpers which they supply for the Canterburry.
kiddman
341 posts
 
Pani, what wire are you using to bi-wire the Tannoys?
redcarerra OP
55 posts
 
Kiddman,

The amps are M-60's v 3.1. I find the bass in my room great, full and articulate. Previously I had Merlin speakers and when I whet from Quicksilver V-4's to the Atma-sphere's, I think it really brought out the bass more. Of course with the Tannoys, and the much larger driver, all the more. The Merlin's were really quick though.
sksos1
395 posts
 
Red I bet you would hear even a bigger improvement with the Zero-Autotransformer used with the Atmasphere amps. I know I did using my M60's with some Acoustic Zen Crescendos.

(Dealer dislaimer)
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akg_ca
2,384 posts
 
from the TANNOY website

Q: Bi-Wiring- the how and whys?

A: The majority of our residential loudspeakers have two sets of speaker terminals, one for the bass (LF) and one for the treble (HF). These are normally joined by links, and a single cable run is used to the amplifier. However by removing these links, and using two sets of cable or a special bi-wire cable, the LF and HF are only connected together at the amplifier. Even the best cables suffer from losses due to their electrical resistance, inductance and capacitance, and so bi-wiring avoids interaction between the LF and delicate HF parts of the signal. This gives better clarity, detail and an improved soundstage. Your Instruction Manual will detail how to prepare your loudspeakers for bi-wiring, and your dealer will be able to advise on suitable cable choices for a given budget. For further information, please refer to our White Paper

(2) I have the TANNOY DC6s in my "B" syaytem: bi-wiring is step up from third party jumpers (ATLAS) and and bigger step up from the brassplate supplied jumpers

(3) TANNOYS are generally internally wired with VAN DEN HUL. VDH even made a specail "Tannoy" branded version a short while back. I wiould suggest that you start there

Me, I am using ATLAS HYPER 3's bi-wired with stellar results. Again, the better the speaker, the better cable required to priduce the desured results.
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