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Attaching speaker wire directly to crossover?

Recently, a seller on this forum was advertising a pair of Green Mountain EOS HDs that had been modified by attaching Marigo Labs speaker wire directly to the crossover - a $2200 upgrade, the seller said, noting that the Marigo Labs wiring is what gives that model its "HD" designation.

At any rate, I'm just wondering generally about the practice of attaching speaker wire directly to the crossover. Seems like an interesting idea, wondering what kind of benefits and drawbacks it might have sound-wise, and why we don't see this done more often?
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dan_ed
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The obvious reason why this doesn't get done is that people buy convenience. Binding posts are convenient, especially for trying different speaker cables.

I find it is the resistance of the binding posts that cause the loss. The easiest thing to do if you can is to bring the wire from the back side of the binding post out to the front. Then you can pinch the speaker cable spade and the end of the wire together with the binding post. The same thing can be done to the amp end. Be careful there!

$2200?!?! That seems ridiculous but I confess I don't know what had to be done to get that to work on those speakers.
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