@p05129 I don't care who recommends it, bi-wiring is just redundant wiring. It makes NO DIFFERENCE to the sound. Bi or tri, your just feeding into the junk audio accessory industry.
Using biwired cables on speakers with only 2 connections
I generally have bought biwire speaker cables in the past, and now I have speakers that can't be bi wired.
Is there any problem if I only use two of the four wires and just Cover the other two wires so they don't touch each other. I hate the fact that I bought really expensive speaker cables and now I have this issue.
Do I use the high pass or the low pass LR pair? Which have been marked this way so I trust there was actually a reason for them doing this and not just cosmetic
Will this impair sonic performance ?
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@emergingsoul (or others) please let me know what you ended up experiencing? I am in the same boat, have biwired cables and new speakers that are single. I have banana on the main and binding posts on the shorter section. I'm thinking to just try banana and seal off the binders.... I won't have everything set up to test for another 3 weeks... |
If it made an audible difference and probably doesn't, it would still drive me nuts having the 2 ends flopping in the breeze. I would do what do what @audphile1 suggested and get the banana to spade adaptors. Also you won't need to cut up your good cables to get bare ends. On the bi wiring subject I normally agree the differences are small except for some Usher BE 718s I had. There was a definite improvement bi-wiring. No I didn't measure anything. Could be that the combined gauge of the bi wire cables were better suited to the speakers and a single strand of that gauge would have done the same thing. no idea. |
I cut out the edge of a box and slid the end of the cable inside the corrugated piece and then just put some electrical tape over it to protect the connection. So basically one side is connected and one side isn't and according to the cable manufacturer, transparent, it shouldnt matter. But I tend to think cutting the gauge effectively in half is not a good thing. when You have really expensive cables it's kind of hard to sacrifice the biwire end. And also when you biamp, it's twice as many cables. It's not a perfect world. Don't really hear any difference it would be nice if I had the full gauge of the cable available. |
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