Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire

I found that quad wiring was better than biwiring on my speakers, but the orginal jumpers that the speakers came with were of relatively poor quality.

Richard

If that's what he said, Robert Harley was wrong. One of the effects of bi-wiring is to change [slightly] the way the crossover behaves. You are essentially adding some resistance, capacitance, and inductance into the circuit that divides the signal between the drivers. The changes you make might be for better or for worse. If the designer of the speaker did a good job, you should use the same wiring system he did when he designed the crossover. If he used single wiring when he designed the crossover, changing from single wire to bi-wiring will only mess up his design. If he used bi-wiring, then you need to find out what wire he used, and in what lengths, so you can simulate the conditions under which he approved the design. Likewise for tri- or quad- wiring.

A waste of mo wire.

A friend of mine has speakers that are capable of being tri-wired. For years he had them bi-wired, and then when he had an opportunity he began testing tri'd configurations. He hit on one that works a lot better in his system than his bi-wired arrangement. YMMV, of course. But the downside is that finding the right combination of speaker cables in a tri-wired configuration could be enough to drive you mental.