Also, not only do you defeat the purpose of running the speaker bi- if you don’t remove them, you can damage the speakers.
reply: Only if you cross wire them.
No. You can damage them even if the polarity is correct. Two amps will have slightly different output voltage levels for any given input. The difference exists between the hot (red) terminals of the two amps. The shorting bars short the two sets of terminals together. So if one is driven at a particular moment to 30 volts and the other to 25 volts, you have 5V/ zero ohms = infinite current from one amp to the other.
remove them.
Bi amping allows you to choose one amp that is good for high frequencies and another that is basically a ballsy beast for low.
With bi-wiring there is no danger either way.Bi wiring simply allows two sets of wires to connect to the two. Its pretty subtle. But, removing the straps minimizes cross-drivers impacts (e.g.: the larger back-emf from the woofer) from impacting the higher frequencies. I suspect its a very, very, very small impact.
G