Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions

I consider a speaker's minimum impedance to be it's impedance, as a rule. My speakers are really 4 ohm speakers, and the lengths are nowhere near enough to cause a change in the frequency response by 0.1 dB or more.

I would think contact resistance could easily be more significant than the resistance of the wires.

I remember the Dunlavy story.

http://www.verber.com/mark/ce/cables.html

The major effect of buywiring I experienced was in a store when I was auditioning the old PSB Stratus Minis, where they demonstrated the speakers I was auditioning with some tri-wire speaker cable. Unfortunately, they were careless with the extra wire, which shorted out across the speaker terminals and blew the amplifier. Just blew the fuse, I trust. THAT made a definite audible difference because the amplifier no longer worked! They had to hook up another amp.
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