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Re: Why Bi-wire?

Hello -

I've also had excellent results with bi-wiring. Here are some reasons that some manufacturers don't recommend it:

1) The speaker in question uses a series crossover and cannot be bi-wired.

2) If you use anything except identical wires, the performance of the speaker will be altered in unpredictable ways. There are too many ways the end user can screw things up with bi-wiring.

3) The manufacturer recommends silly expensive speaker wire and if you bi-wired with that stuff, the wire would cost more than the speakers.

4) The designer is deaf and can't hear the difference between different speaker cables OR bi-wiring.

You can probably guess which manufacturers fall into which of these categories.

Best regards,
Charles Hansen


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