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"Undo" biwiring?

If I have speakers with bi-wire terminals and only want to use single wire cables, is there any reason I can't desolder the wires from the low frequency posts and solder them to the high frequency posts or vice versa? Seems to make a lot more sense then adding expensive jumpers (which have made a difference in my experience), yet I have never seen this done or suggested. I would also need one less set of binding posts if I wanted to upgrade.
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almarg
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kr4, not sure you understand what I'm asking and I don't understand your response. Use the same wires as jumpers instead of jumpers...?
What Kal (KR4) is suggesting is using jumpers that consist of the same kind of wire that is used for the speaker's internal connections to the binding posts.

Assuming that the required jumper length is short, and given that most and probably all predictable speaker cable effects can be expected to be proportional to length, that sounds like a good approach to me.

Regards,
-- Al
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almarg
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Thanks for the clarification, Kal. I was envisioning that no additional wire would be needed to change the connections internally. In any event, we're on the same page with respect to the bottom line, which is that there is no point in doing anything internal to the speaker.

Regards,
-- Al
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