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Replacing Jumpers = Bi-wiring??
Leafs why do the many high end speakers provide bi-wire design? Single wire designs with elaborate internal crossover designs can be excellent sounding speakers, the speaker manf has decided for you that $500 single cable is better than two $250 c... 
Replacing Jumpers = Bi-wiring??
Trent do yourself a favor and follow the instructions in your speaker owners manual. REMOVE jumpers when bi-wiring,that is the way your bi-wire speaker was designed with seperate treble and bass crossover circuits. Jumpers are used for single wire... 
dire straits -what to buy
Your next purchase after SoS, should be "Making Movies", only 7 tracks and 2 are weak, but still contains best material of any DS album. 
dire straits -what to buy
Yes by all means get the remastered greatest hits album, "Sultans of Swing" one of the best sounding mainstream CDs ever recorded. Also solid selection with no filler, start here. 
TEACH ME ABOUT BI-WIRE
I disagree with almost everything Jostler, Stevemj have posted here, and so do the majority of high end speaker manufacturers, but they are entitled to their opinions.The actual mechanics of bi-wiring, and special design of seperate crossovers tha... 
Best audio racks
For stunning original designs, that are very unique checkDelve audio a listed dealer at the audiogon browse page.He carries a line called "Particular", these look like works of art in a museum. 
TEACH ME ABOUT BI-WIRE
Also your speakers owners manual should have some info on bi-wire set-up if you have bi-wire speakers. Remember to remove connecting bars between two pairs of cable connectorsif you bi-wire. 
TEACH ME ABOUT BI-WIRE
All your questions will be answered at this website whichincludes diagrams for bi-wiring.www.home-cinema-guide.co.uk/BiWiring%20Guide/biwire.htm 
Psychological audio, proceed slowly
JD you have too much spare time, go listen to some music instead of writing long exposes. 
Bi-wiring mishap
Kubla your sense of humor is disturbing, you probably thinkmaking prank/obscene phone calls is amusing also. Go play your games somewhere else. 
My overlooked cheap tweak
Kontak provides best improvement, as Bob said. I have tried Caig pro gold and some others, Kontak clearly provided greatest improvement in sound.I just use whenever changing cables, dries almost instantly,pipe cleaners (tobacco dept) are better th... 
Bi-wiring mishap
Never and I mean NEVER handle/change you speaker cables orinterconnects without turning off all equipment. This is common sense, but never violate this golden rule.Also when bi-wiring speakers you must remove the connecting bar or jumpers that con... 
Integrated Amps: How Good?
Although many high end integrateds are quite good, there are problems having amp power supply inside same unit as preamp, emf distortions etc. Musical Fidelity M3 integratedhas seperate case for power supply to overcome this, so it is actually sim... 
Speaker Placement
I saw some refreshing new insights into speaker placement atwww.immediasound.com/Speakersetup.htmlDeparts from rigid Cardas type perfect symetrical setup, and encourages different toe-in each speaker and tryingmoving one speaker closer/further fro... 
Vibrapods under speakers
Carl my stand mounted small 2 way speakers, which have single 6" bass also responded very positively as you indicate. The most noticeable for me was increased bassresponse, which is lacking in small 2 way speakers, wasmuch improved. I placed the v...