Speaker Asylum General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

---

[ Follow Ups ] Thread: [ Display  All  Email ] [ Speaker Asylum ]

---

[ Alert Moderator ]

---

My therory

Posted by Atver (A) on April 18, 2007 at 06:50:13

In Reply to: Bi-wiring success story posted by The Rube on April 17, 2007 at 19:43:18:

I'm sure there's a more scientific explanation, but here's my take.
When the woofer is told to reproduce a bass note, ideally it would start and stop immediatly, we know it doesn't work like that, the woofer will continue to move as it settles. This movement is fed back thru the voice coil into the crossover and thus interfering with other drivers reproduction of music.
By biwiring, you are giving these unwanted signals a longer path and some added resistance (long cable)to basically isolate them from the other drivers.
I think the Meadowlarks are first order crossover like the Vandersteens, it appears that first order crossovers may benefit more then others. Due to simpler crossover construction???Just a guess. There's a lot of other opinions on this. I think Thiel is 1st order and they don't want you to biwire? Is this correct?
The Focals I used to have had biwire capability, but the factory recommendation was not to biwire and that the biwaire capability was simply a marketing move and they thought most users would screw up the sound by using wrong or different cables.
All I know is that it works wonders on the Vandy. Other speakers I had tried it with, didn't improve much, if at all.

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Amplified Parts

---

[ Top of Page ] [ Contact Us ] [ Support/Wish List ] [ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]

---

[ General ] [ Speakers ] [ Tubes ] [ Vinyl ] [ Digital ] [ Hi-Rez ] [ Video Asylum ] [ Cables ] [ Tweaks/DIY ] [ Music ] [ Films ]

---