Biwiring make any sense?


I am on the verge of adding new floor standers to my setup as my room has enlarged.  Options being considered are KEF R7 Metas and PSAudio Aspen FR10's.  Both have biwireable terminals, the KEF has a jumper switch  and the PS has jumper wires to bridge the terminals.  The other option from dealing with the jumpers is to biwire the speakers.  In this case I could run a banana and a spade off each output terminal.  Is this even worth considering?  Biamping is not something I'm interested in, as I already am running off an integrated amp.  I had a pair of BassZillas before, each one of which had 3 sets of terminals, the top 2 being biwired, but that's a different deal (I don't have those cables anymore).  Speaker comments would be welcome too.  Amp is PSAudio Spectral Strata w/150 watts into 4 ohms.

howardlee

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What about biwiring with silver for High frequencies and copper for low frequencies ?

I do this with AudioQuest KE-4 (15 AWG pure solid silver) up top and Mont Blanc (12 AWG solid copper) on bottom. Used to use this in my main rig, and now brought it back in my 2nd rig. Always liked this combo (going back 15 years), and still like it now. Have compared it to many other AQ models - symmetric double bi-wire, internal biwire, single wire. There’s 2 cable configurations I’ve liked better (both much more expensive), but I like this combo better than all the rest. The AQ hybrids - with copper & silver in one cable - are quite good, but no more effective that this mixed biwire, IMO.

The knock against this approach would be a sacrifice of "coherence" from the asymmetric biwire - but I don’t hear ANY issues with coherence here. Silver helps bring out detail and sparkle. Copper keeps a nice overall warmth. And it all blends nicely. Speaking of coherence worries, my Tannoys pair a metal dome with a large paper cone - and they’re still incredibly coherent, to my ears!