If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers

I’ve had both on my Nola Lotus Elites 20 years ago, and they sound better bi-wired. I find the bass frequencies sound clearer when they have their own lead.

I can't say that I’ve found very many speakers that sounded their best with a jumper instead of its own lead. I’m sure they’re out there; I just haven't heard it yet.

@imjerrys 

I prefer single wiring with jumpers. Follow the recommendation of Merlin's Barry Palkovic, connect the single-wire cable to the speaker's tweeter/HF connections, and use jumpers to the bass/LF connections.

This works for me. Honestly, bi-wiring is imagination because the speaker cables are bridged at the amp and speaker end. Just a marketing ploy.

I use Nordost Reference jumpers and they are incredible, can't imagine what the Odin's are like.

Resurrecting this thread having read this one, and the 2024 thread on bi-wiring which had many responses!

This question isn't to open the debate again about the merit of doing this, but get a sanity check on if I've done this correctly.

I have a pair of Energy Veritas 2.8's which are tri-wireable (3 pairs of binding posts on the rear, lows, mids, highs).  I've always had one pair of speaker cables going to the low terminals with high quality jumpers connected to the mids and then the mids to the high binding posts.

My wife asked me to move the equipment rack a year or two ago so I bought the identical speaker wire but in a 15 foot length versus the 10 foot I had previously.  Now I'm back to the original location of my equipment rack and I have two pairs of very nice speaker cables in different lengths.

So I decided I might as well try out bi-wire.

What I did was use the shorter length speaker cables and connected them to the amp binding posts and then over to the low binding posts on the speakers.  Obviously I removed the jumper from the lows to the mids on the speakers.

I connected the longer length speaker wires to the same amp binding posts (a bit of a tight squeeze with spades) and then routed them to the high binding posts on the back of the speakers.  The high binding posts have jumpers going to the mid binding posts on the speakers.

Is this the best configuration to test this out?  I thought the shorter length cables going to the low binding posts on the speakers could mean less resistance so that was my rationale.  Not sure if the 2nd set of speaker cables going to the speaker mid or high binding posts matters.

No, I'm not going to spend more money to tri-wire!  I already have enough speaker cable going out of the amp and across the carpet to the speakers.

For a nice solution that doesn’t cost a lot, this is what I have done in order to avoid jumpers. Buy a pair of speaker cables unterminated at the speaker end. Then measure the distance between the two sets of binding posts and remove the insulation from each speaker cable lead to accommodate the continuous cable through both speaker (+) and both (-) posts.

Or you could get cables made with Canare 4S11 for example, terminated at the amp end with two connectors for the (+) and (-) and four connectors at the speaker end to accommodate both pairs of posts.

I hope that makes sense.

I have heard slightly better sound with some speakers, but not all, when bi-wiring, compared with single-wiring. YMMV...