In Reply to: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions posted by JaroTheWise on July 12, 2015 at 00:42:00:
If you think it sounds better, go for it. Nothing I say is likely to change your mind.
My advice is not to spend very much money, because bi-wiring is primarily buy-wiring. Buy-wiring will lower the resistance seen by the amplifier, but then, why not just get adequately heavy gauge wire in the first place?
Roger Russell, who was Director of Acoustic Research at McIntosh Laboratory Inc. for 25 years, has an on line article on Speaker Wire and he provides a table giving the maximum length of various gauges of wire IF you don't want the resistance of the wire to make an audible difference to the frequency response at the speakers. I have linked to the speaker wire table in his article, but you can still read the whole article.
There are a number of things besides resistance which 'might' make an audible difference with speaker wires, such as high capacitance, which may upset some poorly desinged amplifiers. Roger Russell discusses some of those issues, too.
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- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - Pat D 19:02:54 07/13/15 (7)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - RGA 16:58:52 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - Bold Eagle 12:26:29 07/14/15 (2)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - Pat D 19:31:08 07/14/15 (1)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - Bold Eagle 20:14:17 07/14/15 (0)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - Presto 10:52:07 07/14/15 (1)
- RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions - JaroTheWise 12:01:39 07/14/15 (0)
- And with your Paradigm, which supports bi-wiring - what is your PERSONAL experience? - carcass93 06:51:39 07/14/15 (0)