Bi-Wire


I am new to HT, so pardon me if this is dumb question.

What is the use of bi-wiring speaker cables? Are they only used if you have an amp that uses A and B Channels or if you Bi-Amp.

Let us say I have a regular recvr like an Onkyo 595 and I buy speakers that are bi-wirable, would I benefit by bi-wring them??
rkolluri

Showing 1 response by orthonormal

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.