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Why shouldn't I bi-wire Wilson Watt/Puppies 6

I just aquired a pr of WWP6's and saw in a review that "Wilson will void the warrentee if one bi-amps or bi-wires these speakers". I have a pr. of bi-wire Nordost SPM reference that I would like to use but this has got me scratching my head. I just set the room this morning using a pr. of Cary 805b amps. The speaker wires are plugged into the 8ohm and 4ohm taps on the Carys and then bi-wired to the Wilsons. Nothing has been turned on yet as I had to go to work, (where I'm writing this from;-) If anyone can enlighten me as to any possible problems from this setup, it would be appreciated. I don't want to have to wait to talk to Wilson on Tues before playing some tunes!
rloggie

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herman
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Void the warranty? Sounds silly to me. They may recommend not biwiring because they think they sound better with their own jumpers, but there is nothing that could damage the speakers with biwiring.

How could they void the warranty? They could never prove you operated them this way.

Are you intending to use the 8 ohm and 4 ohm taps at the same time? The cabinet hooked to the 8 ohm tap will be getting more power. You should you use the same tap for both cabinets.
herman
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I'm really only running two sets of speaker wire to the same binding post from two different taps, 8 and 4 ohm.

Perhaps I'm confused but it sounds to me like you would be shorting out 1/2 of your output transformer, which would be a major problem. Don't do this unless you are positive you are doing it correctly or you could do some serious damage to the amp.

I like the other idea of using 1/2 the cable and leaving the others disconnected.
herman
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I haven't seen the latest versions but the earlier ones had the crossovers in the cabinets. Is the 6 different?
herman
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Jfrech, just curious. Are you saying the entire crossover is in one cabinet and the jumper that feeds the other cabinet is being fed a signal that has already gone through the crossover? If so that would explain why they don't want you to biwire or biamp, you would be bypassing the crossover for one cabinet as you stated.

When new don't they come with the jumper ? The puppy tail?
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