Some to many will testifiy that bi-wiring typically improves soundstaging and imaging along with providing a more open and airy presentation.
However, at least one white paper actually call this 'improvement' a distortion of sorts and after the initial emotion of experiencing the 'improvement', the paper claims it is unnatural and is more like slimely pollution with every record you play. Or something like that.
Here's the paper: http://www.sonicdesign.se/biwire.html
Whether it truly is a distortion, I do not know.
Nevertheless, popular forklore states that some speakers sound better bi-wired and that some speakers are meant to be bi-wired.
On the contrary, you should never consider just the speaker when contemplating bi-wiring. You should also take into consideration the contribution that other components and the cables themselves make. Not to mention your system's synergy as a whole, and finally your budget.
Even after much research and eventual purchase, you may or may not notice any sonic difference. And if you do, those sonic differences could be good or bad.
In my case, I had internal bi-wired cables that had mono terminations on both ends. Then I converted those terminations to bi-wire and noticed the usual improvements.
I recently purchased new and different sc's and I am back to mono terminations with matching 6-inch jumpers and the original speaker jumper straps back in place.
And I do not feel that I'm missing the bi-wiring affects as I believe the new cables and other subsequent upgrades have more than made up for those affects.
Personally, I'm neither for bi-wiring nor really against it, as every system and taste is different.
But my first suggestion would be to use those monies that you may have earmarked for bi-wired cables toward an upgrade of the weakest link in your system, cables or otherwise.
I guess I don't believe bi-wiring needs to be as important as some believe it is.
-IMO
However, at least one white paper actually call this 'improvement' a distortion of sorts and after the initial emotion of experiencing the 'improvement', the paper claims it is unnatural and is more like slimely pollution with every record you play. Or something like that.
Here's the paper: http://www.sonicdesign.se/biwire.html
Whether it truly is a distortion, I do not know.
Nevertheless, popular forklore states that some speakers sound better bi-wired and that some speakers are meant to be bi-wired.
On the contrary, you should never consider just the speaker when contemplating bi-wiring. You should also take into consideration the contribution that other components and the cables themselves make. Not to mention your system's synergy as a whole, and finally your budget.
Even after much research and eventual purchase, you may or may not notice any sonic difference. And if you do, those sonic differences could be good or bad.
In my case, I had internal bi-wired cables that had mono terminations on both ends. Then I converted those terminations to bi-wire and noticed the usual improvements.
I recently purchased new and different sc's and I am back to mono terminations with matching 6-inch jumpers and the original speaker jumper straps back in place.
And I do not feel that I'm missing the bi-wiring affects as I believe the new cables and other subsequent upgrades have more than made up for those affects.
Personally, I'm neither for bi-wiring nor really against it, as every system and taste is different.
But my first suggestion would be to use those monies that you may have earmarked for bi-wired cables toward an upgrade of the weakest link in your system, cables or otherwise.
I guess I don't believe bi-wiring needs to be as important as some believe it is.
-IMO