Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire


My speakers are four way and have fourteen bananas (7 red and 7 black) on the back. There are three sets of jumpers. I am about to purchase new speaker cable. Has anyone tried tri wire or quad wire? According to Robert Harley - you should at least bi wire when you have the terminals to do so. I am assuming there is diminishing return when you go to three or four cables. Please write your experience of tri or quad wiring, preferably compared to bi wire or single wire. Thanks, as always.
dcaudio

Showing 3 responses by drrdiamond

I found that quad wiring was better than biwiring on my speakers, but the orginal jumpers that the speakers came with were of relatively poor quality.

Richard
To restate my situation:

I have the big B&W800's that were designed to be quad wired, and therefore everyone that I have know quad wired them.

There are the lucky few of us that have also actively biamped them with quad wiring.

Richard
Kr4,

As I stated, mine are the big 800's, not the N800.

The benefit of actively biamping with quad wiring of the 800's is not a subtle improvement! The active biamping, with the Krell KBX, was the biggest single impovement that I have ever made to my system.

Know before thy speak. :)

Richard
PS> I know of one guy that had his 800's set up as I do. Before selling them he bought the N800S. He compared the two in his own home and sold the N800S.