Question about Bi-Wiring

@thyname

Good observation. Lamp cord… seriously… I got out of college 50 years ago.

Very true… good quality speaker cable first, and then biwiring. I used a set of Cardas Gold Reference for many years. The primary driver of the sound was the high quality… secondarily the bi-wiring… but to my surprise, bi-wiring was better. Always sounded silly… but it was a bit better.

I have my ProAc’s wired up in a diagonal connection. Honestly don’t think it made much of a difference from a single run with the OEM metal jumpers.

Thanks for all the input.

I have a bit of a dumb question.

Now, I there are some speaker cables made specifically for Bi-Wire, like from AudioQuest.

But other then that, would I need to 2 pairs of speaker cables for each terminal? For example, 1 banana plug and maybe 1 spade to each speaker terminal?

I do know that from the positive output of the amp, it would go to both of the positive terminals on the speaker but if the speaker cables are not made specifically for that purpose (as majority are not), I am assuming I need to use 2 pairs per terminal.

Thnx

It depends on the amp. If your amp has dual taps (like mine), or if you are bi-amping, then to speaker cable runs. If not, there bi-wire speaker cables already made and available from most cable manufacturers that have two leads on the amp side, and four on the speaker side

Analysis Plus and Acoustic Zen have a variety of biwire - shotgun and straight up.