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In Reply to: RE: Need some bi-wire counseling and opinions posted by hahax@verizon.net on July 17, 2015 at 15:38:23
See if you can find it. I think it all turns on whether different frequency signals all sharing the same wire have any tendency to conflict with each other in some way, and I think the science would say that they simply do not- especially in a system like mine where power and volume levels are not very high.
Bottom line is that I felt I heard an improvement so either I was mistaken or it happened for a reason other than having two wires.
JaroTheWise
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The signal that goes down the wire is not a bunch of separate ones for different frequencies. A single waveform that has all the information in it goes down the wire. Think of the groove on a vinyl record. There is only one groove and the responding stylus is generating a single signal for each channel. The speaker reponds to this waveform. I find this quite remarkable. The human ear plus brain can convert the single continous complex waveform into the sound of different instruments, voices, etc.
As for bi-wiring making a difference, that is controversial as this thread shows. I once asked a physicist who specializes in amplifier design and signal transmission what he thought. He did give it some investigation and concluded that theoretically there could be a difference (it involved power reqirements for the low and high frequencies and how the amp might react with one or two wires to handle the separate frequency domains). He thought it would make no prectical difference so long as a single wire approach had a wire that was up to handling the loads.
FWIW (very little) I have use a single wire and bi-wiring on my Vandersteen 5s and could hear no difference.
Joe
I mean to A/B my Paradigms again to reconfirm that I noticed an improvement, and at the time it seemed fairly pronounced. I will say I tried the same on some Epos that I had around and they did not seem to make a difference. Also need to mess around with some different jumpers.
It may be somewhat speaker dependent - or in my case the Paradigms are version 2 so probably about 15 years old at this point - I bought them used - so in terms of the electronics the age could be some sort of factor. I just picture that the previous owner single wired them all these years and I was the first to connect a bi-wire
Also noticed it is possible to wire them with jumpers in place - one wire polarity to the bottom set and the other to the top set which would be a bit different current path then using one set of posts, but I don't know what that would mean exactly
JaroTheWise
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