to biwire or not?


Not going into detail about the type equipment being used,or not used.just would like just a general opinion on if to biwire or just regular wiring to speakers?thank you.
john421

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Some people dress their children in matching jumpers, otherwise it has to be among the strangest tweaks...I was warned by Alan Yun NOT to lose my Prelude jumpers as apparently people do and ask for replacements...10 bucks!
It can sound really different either way. The guy who designed my speakers, Alan Yun (Silverline Preludes), told me they (specifically the Preludes) sounded more "coherent" with high quality single wire so, of course, I ignored him and bi-wired 'em anyway. Turns out he was right, and I learned from listening what "coherent" sounding speakers actually means...they really do sound much more "organized" tonally in my system with single wire (AQ Type 8). It has to be speaker/system/personal taste specific, and hey, I'm lucky he answered the phone the day I called Silverline.
Jumpers...I was referring to jumpers...small bits of wire between the posts for jumpage used by jumpists who single wire their speakers. The tweaking part is casting aside the purpose made often gold plated solid brass jumpoids (the correct technical name...maybe) and replacing them with cable exotica, or 2 inches of speaker wire of the same type as the main wire run. Some claim this is a good thing...but I can agree only that it is a thing.
My cable manages to keep its identity all the way to the accepting binding posts on my speakers, carrying the electrons hither and yon with alacrity....the posts welcoming this activity with appropriate appropriateness...the posts are connected to each other with exactly what they should be: A chunk of gold plated purpose made brass that keeps them bound as one against the world. It's also more aerodynamic that way.