How to connect bi-wire speakers

"If the cable is not a bi-wire, you should place your jumper between the negative and positive terminals of either the tweeter or woofer. It doesn't make any difference which ones are jumpered, just be sure to place the jumpers on the same "type" of terminals (tweeter or woofer)."

NO-o-o-o-o-o!

Speaker cable either to tweeter terminals (+/-) OR to woofer terminals (+/-) OR to one tweeter terminal (+/-) AND one woofer terminal (opposing leg of +/- from that of tweeter terminal).

After you have sorted out this six-and-one-half-dozen scenario connect the jumpers to tweeter/woofer terminals (+/+) AND tweeter/woofer terminals (-/-).

Otherwise you may have smoke coming from the amp and no sound (with the exception of small exploding sounds).

Good luck!

I would connect both +&- of the Silversmith to the high frequency terminals, and then the jumpers from there to the low frequency terminals. Why? High frequency information is more likely to suffer (i.e., detail) from added connections and wire than the low frequency.

Edmond,
The best sound will be achieved by attaching the speaker cables to the tweeter binding posts and connecting the bass posts via the jumper. If you, instead, connect the speaker cables to the bass binding posts, your sound will be noticeably degraded. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. By the way, Silversmith Audio also makes jumpers.

Best Regards,

Jeffrey Smith
Silversmith Audio

Hi

Thanks for everyone, my speaker cable is single wire Palladium. As I saw someone connected one cable to the bass binding post, and one cable to the tweeter binding post. Do you think that would be better connection than both cable connect to tweeter binding post? Both connected with jumpers

>> NO-o-o-o-o-o!...Speaker cable either to tweeter terminals (+/-) OR to woofer terminals (+/-) <<

Gee, I thought this was *exactly* what I recommended. Obviously, I wasn't clear in my explanation. My bad, sorry. Let's suppose you have this configuration:

"Upper" terminals: +_______-

"Lower" terminals: +_______-

The jumper can go between the + and the - of either the "Upper" OR the "Lower" terminals. The speaker cable would then go to the un-jumpered terminals.

As for *requiring* the jumper to be on the bass (or, usually, Lower) terminals - *why* is this necessary? I fail to see how it makes ANY electrical difference.

If Edmond has 2 sets of cables for each speaker (with each set being a +/- pair), he should go ahead and bi-wire 'em.

If you want the *final* word on this, ask the speaker mfgr., I'm sure they've fielded this question before...

Flame suit on...

-RW-