My issue with the jumpers shown in your picture is that it would be very easy to create a short circuit and damage your amp or speakers. To bi-wire or not to bi-wire is a bigger discussion. Simplest would be some high-quality jumpers, As stated many times above. I’ve had success with WBC, “world‘s best cables”, reasonable cost, quality bits, solid build.
If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers
Hello All!
Newbie here : ) I have a pair of speakers (MartinLogan Motion 40i) that have, according to the website, "dual five-way binding post speaker terminals which allow bi-amping or bi-wiring." As you can see in the top right photo of the speaker terminals in this link, the speakers came with free jumpers (the jumpers look like just a sheet of conductive metal) between the 4 terminals.
https://www.martinlogan.com/en/product/motion-40i
So when purchasing speaker cables, placing the best quality connection over cost, should I:
1. (Cheapest) Get single banana plugs and use the included free jumpers, or
2. (More costly but will it be WAY better?) Get Bi-wire speaker cables and remove the free jumpers.
3. Get single banana plugs, and find some high quality jumpers to replace the free included jumpers.
If it doesnt matter much to sound quality, it seems option #1 is best as its cheapest. However my goal is to get the best/most efficient connection so i suspect options #2 or #3 might be the way to go?
Many thanks for any advice!
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My plinius sa 100 has four binding post each side , my diapason adamantes has also 4 binding post. When I used 4 single run cable each side . I get huge soundstage and good layering, effortless sound.Lak is right 2 and 3 fast answers on cabling you have to experiment, to get the sound preference you like. |
@steve_a001 Kimber-Kable 12TC speaker cable, 8ft long, has 0.006 Ohm resistance and less than 1uH loop inductance, which makes interconnect between amp to speakers terminals “invisible”. If cable is too long (high R and L), then there will be some improvements of bi-wiring. Jumper/SPKR-terminals/SPKR-internal-wiring-crossover quality can be very bad quality, many folks will be surprised to see 0.5Ohm LPF (bass) SPKR inductor resistance, and very tiny wires inside SPKR cabinet. |
The simple answer is yes, bi-wire. My experience is that bi-wiring always improves all areas of sound quality. The reasons are listed.
In conclusion, bi-wiring technologically makes sense. My experience has been it improves all areas of SQ with my speakers in my system. My recommendation is to get a demonstration pair of bi-wire cables of your choice and determine if you get improved SQ and if the benefit/cost ratio is worth it
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