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Do you Bi-Wire, if you can?

This topic came about in another post.

If your speakers allow for bi-wiring, do you use this feature? Or, do you use good quality jumpers and single wire cables? Or, do you just use the jumper plates that come with the speakers and single wire cables?

(If you are bi-amping, then that's completely different.)
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timrhu
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I have one pair of speakers that allow biwire. Although I have done it in the past, I couldn't hear any difference. Now that I'm 61-years-old I wouldn't bother listening for a difference so I no longer biwire.
My other two pairs of speakers only allow single wire connection.
timrhu
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Perhaps not, and of course there isn't a standard, but the amplifier output originates from a single positive pole and a single negative pole. Therefore, assuming only a small L/C/R effect from the speaker cables, is not the relative current draw at each crossover board determined by the drivers and crossover components and not whether it arrives at the speaker by means of a single pair of positive/negative wires or two pairs of wires in a bi-wire configuration?
Mitch2

Sounds great. But just to nit pick, you leave out the option of bi-amping with a single set of binding posts as a standard.
timrhu
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I think the reason bi-wiring from a single amplifier causes so much discussion is that it is sort of a poor man's bi-amping and in many cases does not result in significant sonic differences/improvements over single wiring with jumpers.
Mitch2

That's exactly how I see it.
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