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Unusual Old School Way of Wiring Speakers

Okay, I know I've seen this as a topic on here before, but for the life of me can't find it or any reference to it on the internet. There is a name for this method of connecting speakers and I believe it's kind of an old school novelty. I've read there is a way to connect speakers to recover "hidden" sound or information. As I recall, you connect your speakers normally, then somehow run a speaker cable between the two speakers themselves to obtain a "phantom" like channel that clarifies sound you don't normally hear from a standard two speaker connection. Can anyone help me with this method and/or point me to sources that discusses this? Thanks!

liv2teach
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russ69
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A center channel?

liv2teach OP
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Sorry, I should have written it more clearly, this is in a two channel stereo system.

csmgolf
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If I remember correctly, Fried produced a version of their model C satellite speaker (C-6?) with a special crossover and dual voice coil mid bass drivers. There was a way to connect the two speakers so that the second voice coil was out of phase and was supposed to enhance the spatial presentation of the speakers. It was specific to those models that had the specially designed crossover though. 

I believe VanL speaker works out of Chicago had a speaker that did something similar. I don't remember the model though.

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kr4
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It generally requires having a special added driver in each speaker.  It was developed by Bob Carver and marketed, to this day, by Polk.  See

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mceljo
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I'm not having any luck finding anything about it, but I thought I read about connecting a rear speaker to one of the outputs (i.e. lefts or rights) from the main speakers with the result being a bit of a phantom channel the added some depth.  Does this sound familiar?

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