to bi-wire or not?


Looking for advice on whether to bi-wire my Joseph Audio RM22si speakers.  Am currently running Acoustic Zen Satori mono cables which I love.  My local dealer tells me moving to bi-wire cables (either Satori shotgun or Hologram II) will make a huge improvement.   I have always been under the general impression that unlike bi-amping, bi-wiring is not all that beneficial - but I may be way off base.

Thoughts?  
vinylbliss

Showing 2 responses by mulveling

Even when I've done asymmetric biwire, it's still been better than single wire. Just don't go TOO far off design principles or lengths between the two. For a while I used a 6 ft AQ Mont Blanc (12 AWG copper) on bottom and a 7 ft KE-4 (15 AWG silver) on top and it sounded great, competing on par with the more expensive AQ Redwood symmetric biwire. 

To those who say absolute symmetry is required - that "perfectly symmetric" signal is going through two TOTALLY different sets of drivers and crossover parts anyways. 

I've moved on to symmetric biwire and its great, but like I said I'll still take most asymmetric biwires over single wire.