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To Bi-wire or not?

I was using Tara Labs shot-gun cable to connect my Usher speakers, leaving the jumpers in. When I switched to Blue Jeans cable and true bi-wire and removed the jumpers. I hear no improvement, in fact i lost some bass. I contacted Blue Jeans to see about cable burn-in but they said burn-in is a myth. I have heard that bi-wiring a speaker with low end cable is better than using higher quality cable in non bi-wire application. Any thoughts?
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daverz
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Two 12 AWG cables would be the equivalent of one 9 AWG cable. At 6 feet long, that is huge overkill. I just don't see how you could be losing any bass. But of course, there's no harm in sticking with your single wire cables.

If you want to tie this down, you could use a Radio Shack SPL meter plus a program like SynRTA or Room EQ Wizard to actually see what your bass response is.
daverz
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Well, if you can measure a drop off of 1 dB below 100 Hz, that's pretty definitive: there's something wrong with your bi-wire cable, go back to the old cables. Perhaps there's some issue with the connectors.

I still think the explanations for bi-wiring being supposedly superior sound like bafflegab to me. But I wouldn't expect it to be *inferior* to the point where frequencies below 100 Hz would drop compared to frequencies above.
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