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Night and day speaker connection

I made a great move since I have had always my speaker connected my speakers in BiWire configuration with Biwire speaker cable.  So,  I connect the two red speaker wire to the (+) to the "bass speaker binding post" via a banana plug. I did the same with the two black speaker wire to the (-) "bass speaker binding post" via a banana plug. The result is realy astonishing ! I would never go back to biwire connetions.  But you must use a good quality jumper, to link the two black speaker binding post together and the two red speaker binding post together . I can not stop listening now... to my new reveal music collection.


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As mentioned, some loudspeaker cables can be wired/connected in internal biwire configuration, which effectively halves the awg going to each post.  Connecting both leads to one post might be called internal shotgun.

What remains to be seen is this: if you got another set of cables, and doubled them up too on just the single posts + jumpers (external shotgun), vs. connecting to all 4 posts (external biwire).

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If your speaker binding posts accept spade and banana, you could one of each on the terminations.
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If nothing else, it doubles your awg, and gets you nearer to the ideal of battery connector leads.
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I wish that guy from Israel was still around.
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I recommend searching shotgun + speaker on the forum and reading some of the threads.  There can be pluses and minuses.  Depending on the current awg and the resulting awg if you double up.  If you know the awg of your cables, there are simple calculators on line that can tell you what the resulting awg would be if doubling the run.  But there can also be resistance problems.  If you buy and don't like, it can be costly, but if you can find a way to experiment, it could be worth it.  Basically, but connecting both parts of your internal biwire cable to one set of terminals, you've already done a kind of internal shotgun.  Be aware that connecting two wires of the same awg does not come close to doubling the awg--see on-line calculator for how this works.
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