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In Reply to: RE: If You Scroll Down... posted by Luminator on August 25, 2014 at 09:46:41
you are bi-wiring them by connecting the main cables to the highs and the jumpers to the lows or vice versa. Having had the Totem Shaman for many years, instead of using jumper cables, I found that it sounded much better if you connect two separate speaker cable runs to them (see the attached photo).
Perhaps, you should try it to see if you like the sound...
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Most veteran audiophiles are well aware that properly bi-wiring [this can be a discrete shotgun, with separate runs to woofer and tweeter posts; or it can be a specially-designed internal bi-wire model] gets the most out of the speaker.
Incidentally, when I reviewed the MIT Magnum M3.3bw, it was used extensively on Totem's The One.
However, many of my readers and target audience do not have such cables. Thus, whenever I review bi-wireable speakers, I cover the "single wire + jumper" permutations. In the case of the Element Ember and Fire, quite clearly, they perform more accurately when the speaker cable goes first to the woofer posts.
When I reviewed the Arro, Model 1 Signature, Hawk, The One, Forest, and Mani-2 Signature, these non-Element series models all preferred the single-wire going first to the tweeter post.
Did you play around with bi-wire permutations on the Shaman?
but, I didn't like the sound and I also use a single wire config. using the short run of Nordost Valhalla speaker cable as jumpers, the sound however, was much better than the bi-wiring configuration.What I have now is the best of both worlds where I use a pair of Transparent Audio Ultra speakers cables on the low end and MIT CVT MH 770 Twin terminators speaker cables on the top end and vice versa. The sound is very well balanced from top to bottom.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Edits: 08/25/14
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