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biwireable speakers. Over in the cable asylum poster Gme109 reported that he connected the hook-up wire coming off the high and low sections of the crossover to one set of binding posts inside the speaker thereby eliminating the need to use both sets of binding posts outside the speaker. He reports a great improvement over the use of jumpers. Has anyone else found the same?
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Neither of you below have understood what he's done but I'll put that down to my inadequate description. Because the wires from the high and low pass sections of the crossover are now connected to the same internal part of one binding post he has in fact eliminated per speaker, two jumpers (one hot and one ground)and bypassed two (one hot and one ground)of the four binding posts entirely, i.e. inside and out. If this doesn't matter than neither would cobbling together an eight foot run of speaker wire by combining two four foot sections with a binding post between them.
This is a free country.And I'm free to question the actual scientific difference in what's going on here and call BS on it..
All he did was jumper the high end to the low end inside the cabinet instead of the outside. Same thing, but location differs by maybe an inch or so.
This is a great example of how people say that the $5000 set of speaker wires are like a night and day difference with thier $500 set of audioquest or DHLabs. Take a look at the wires leading up to the speakers on VMPS's new RM60 from the crossover(link below). You would think that Brian would spend a couple of extra bucks on some garden hose sized teflon encased with an 1/16th of an inch air gap silver coated 99.99999% pure copper wires if that would make a noticable difference. But this is just one mans opinion.
but not using "garden hose sized teflon encased" wire. He uses Nordost Valhalla which doesn't remotely resemble a garden hose. A flat soaker perhaps. :)rw
I have sat and tried to listen to the difference. The most I have heard is a very slight change in overall presentation. Nothing I can put my finger on. Not even close. The only reason I heard even the slightest difference was because I was A/Bing. If you gave me a set of $5000 wires to bring home and swap with my Q10's I would not notice an improvement. Maybe others ears can.
Naturally, I am an electrostatic speaker fan and have been for thirty years. There are two considerations to my preference: I need exceptionally low inductance cables to prevent HF rolloff (that low impedance drop up top) and an amplifier that is happy with a reactive load where the speaker is throwing the signal back at it. Challenges to be sure.My cable and amplifier choices for that system, therefore, may not have the same relevance for systems with a different sort of load. With my vintage double Advents, for example, a SS Threshold amp seems to work better than the VTLs. I use double runs of generic 14 gauge wire instead of the ultra low inductance JPS Labs stuff.
rw
My Opinion? your 'friend' has less than a clue.
Only possibilty is that he magically made a 'better' connection.
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