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 Easy Livin wrote:

I've always had my doubts about the benefits of bi-wiring. Here's an article on the subject:

http://www.eastwoodhifi.com.au/tweak.htm

The first part reads:

Bi-Wiring, this'll upset any audiophiles who slipped through my front page warning! For general home use, bi-wiring speakers offers absolutely no benefit whatsoever except for doubling the thickness of the speaker wire (which is why most people can hear an improvement). Those little electrons don't magically split into various frequencies and follow the path to the correct speaker (tweeter, woofer or whatever) so don't waste your time and money. 

There's a huge improvement by double wiring;

And even more if you double the low cable (because the boomer need much power, and when you double, you lower the cable's resistivity), this result in an huge improvment on all criterias: image (soundstage), dynamic, low and HIGH.

When you bi-wire, you relieve your amp by lowering cable's resistivity.

In hifi, you have many theories.

But sometimes theories don't match with the practice.

A goodtube amp has higher distorsions levels than a transistor amp.

But when you listen, it's night and day: the transistor amp will make "rape with cheese" in the highs, whereas the good tube amp will give you shivers on voices, violins, trumpets, in one word: music!

So what does it means?

It means that it is'nt the good criteria for judging musicality.

It's the same with the bi-wire or bi-amp question: some will tell you that it creates problems with filters and other things...

But when you do, it's better: more musical.

And that what's important.