question for ATC SCM40v2 owners? tri wiring?

I believe I’ve seen a post from someone knowledgeable that with these particular speakers, which I have, the bi-wiring and tri-wiring don’t make much of a difference. Try asking Lone Mountain about this. He’s the distributor and probably has a better handle on it than any of us.

Because I love my speakers as is, I haven’t fiddled around with anything like this.

Best of luck.

According to the ATC SCM40 manual, when ATC mentions bi or tri-wiring they are actually referring to bi or tri-amping.

ATC Entry Series monitors are equipped with a “bi-” or “tri-wire” connection panel that enables separate amplification of the bass/mid driver and tweeter. Remove the linking bars between the pairs of terminals if you wish to take advantage of this facility.

The pairs of binding posts are laid out to match the drive unit positions with the bass driver pair towards the lower edge of the input panel. Ensure the multiple amplifiers used for bi or tri-amping have equal gain and use the most powerful amplifier for the LF driver.

You should be able to tri-wire if you so desire but you would probably have to build your own cables. This could easily be done by using six individual speaker cables terminated with stackable banana plugs on the amplifier end.

I wondered the same with my SCM19v2. 

Rather than bi- or in your case tri-wiring I believe it is recommended to get one set of the best speaker cables and jumpers of equal quality in place of the factory binding post plates.

Bi-amping or tri-amping is of course a whole other matter. 

Enjoy!

I have tried the bi and try wiring of the ATC models mentioned and I cannot hear much difference when using the same wire x2 or X3.  

I hear a lot of difference by switching out different types of cable - just one cable-between amp and speaker.  

I think there are a lot of elements in a system that can make a far bigger difference than bi or tri wiring, such as working on getting your room better or getting larger power amp or buying a better phono cartridge.

Brad 

Instead of spending $$$ on getting 3 amps and a special pre-amp and 3 sets of cables, get the best cables you can afford together with good jumpers.