Hey don't hate on my phone i bi-wired my phones internal speakers it made a huge difference. Now having listened to your bi-wired speakers through my bi-wired phone speakers i could taste the sound.
OK lets get this straight once and for all!! A single speaker cable runs to your speaker and the signal goes from the crossover to the woofer and tweeter in series. Bi-wire is a cable with one set of terminals on the amplifier end, and two sets of terminals on the speaker end from a single channel of amplification to power a single speaker with two sets of input terminals. Bi-wiring sends full signal down separate paths, in a parallel path to the low side and the high side. This can improve treble and bass performance. Bi-wiring also removes the bridging plate between the terminals, which are less conductive than quality wire. Running two channels of amplification to a single speaker with two sets of input terminals is providing dedicated channels to woofers and tweeters is Bi-amping. Combining front/surround, or A/B is multiple channels of amplification is passive Bi-amping...do not call it Bi-wiring. Active Bi-amping is utilizing outboard crossovers and amps so you can tweak the levels for better sound. Bi-amping you must go into your receiver settings and assign the multiple channels to the speaker.
Keep up the good work. Love your honest no nonsense approach to hifi. I'm a sceptic also and still using hifi bought 30 years ago. I did buy the wharfedale speakers after watching your vids 🙂
Bi-wired is definitely loftier in the tweeters… More space in terms of stereo image. Dryer bass as well. More articulated. Some type of music massively benefits from it. Some doesn’t at all. The Metal track seemed unchanged.
I’m running marantz sr 5008 I’m running ADCON gf a-555 for my two 10inch drivers on my klipsch rf 7ll and my horns I have a ADCON thx 7000.5 from Chanel’s. Use a splitter one male two females to split the signal off marantz. Those speakers came to life Waiting on my marantz sr 7008 to come back from repair to help clean up the sounds I have Polk RT 20 for mid rear and Polk LS90 for back surround. Plan to bi wire them also with onkyo amps Just with them two main towers has made a big difference in sound. Much more detail great sound
Try running single wired run, plugged into the high side of your speakers utilizing the bridging plates or jumpers, I bet you will get the same result. The emphasis of a speaker is changed by whether you connect to low side or high side of the crossover.
I’m glad you cut within bars, rather than at the start of bars, which is more common. The start of a bar is where elements are often introduced of course, but it also seems that differences are more clear when a transition happens within a bar somewhere. I agree with your assessment of more openness, but even through your mic, then my headphones, the greater openness seems substantial. That surprised me. Although even a slight increase in volume improves lots of things, so I suppose a precise measurement of volume would be required to rule that out. Thanks for the great content.
man im getting into all this audio engineering & rly hard to find informative step by step proccess of bi wiring etc for beginners. very underrated channel. thank you
I think you're on to something, but I think it's due to the jumpers themselves! I tried replacing the jumpers with regular peice of 6 inch lenght speaker cable, and got the same improvements!
I am so glad I found your video. I had literally spent the afternoon bi-wiring my 9.4 Wharfedales on speaker A to my marantz 6003 amp….all the older versions to what you have. I’d even used old Audioquest F18 cable that I forgot I had. What I did forget to do was to remove the jumpers from the back of the speakers, so that’s a job for tomorrow. I’m not sure I’ve used the cable to the best of it’s ability - their are four strands on each wire & I used two to each of the terminals. I have done this in the past (I could tell from the way I’d left the cable ends) but I did think the sound quality dropped a bit from just using a single wire (normal) set up and leaving the jumpers in. I’m going to change this now after watching your video and rejoin them for speaker A and use a completely separate run for speaker B. Really difficult to judge sound quality when watching on TV but I did notice a slight improvement after you’d moved on from the first couple of rock tracks. Thanks for review 👏🏻
Hi thanks for the video The PM6007 is very nice But consider that 155W of max power consumption written on the back of the amp 5:42 Try a 300W amp and listen You should get more current to the speakers and the bass will benefit Another option is going for separates ... pre + power amp Then you can change one or the other But look at the main transformers The amps will small transformers usually sound a little anemic Kind regards, gino
What about single wiring except attache 1 cable to links on the uper plugs on trebles instead of lower ones bass. Would this make a difference if my speakers are to bassy?
Totally agree I've debated this issue with myself for ages & at the end of the dayI also found very little difference between the wiring set ups as you say you would or might hear a notable difference if you hooked up to more high end gear Like your videos great fun & informative 😀
On my marantz and ADCON gfa 555 ADCON thx 7000.5 bi wired. I can hear the tweets were cleaner mids also were cleaner. Mostly on the first and a couple of the others songs were noticeable not on rock
I'm sorry if this sounds silly, but I've got the B&w matrix2 bookshelf speakers, and none of my speaker cables are compatible. I'm just used to the bear cable connection. Would you know what kind of connection I need for these speakers?
If it's the matrix 2 series 2, it looks like standard bandana plugs. They may have plastic/rubber stoppers in the speaker binding posts which will need to be removed before you can put the banana plugs in?
My small feelings I was listen that in headphones and I noticed small difference in high frequencies ( bumping around 10%), . By theory the thicker AWG the smaller resistance is and more bass you are going to get to the speaker. Regarding mid and highs -the bigger surface of the wire and thicker{ amount of wires in the cable) the more mid and high frequencies you will get.( bi-wiring is double thickness of wire) It is like playing with equalizer or capacitor. So it can improve or it does not have to improve(it can make even worst). It depend what sound you like it. I have a feeling that increasing high freq with bi wiring will decrease the noise instead of raising treble pot in your amp.. So if you need more high freq for tweeters do not touch your amp pot just bi-wire. SO if you want to regulate your high freq you can start from bi wiring. Are you agree with me? Small thoughts: Steve Ray Vaughan have tried the best guitar cable from monster company , his tech brought for his session. He was not happy at all from the sound and wanted him to go to local store radio shack to buy very thin cable, after when he plug this cheap wire the sound of his guitar was like we know, why? because high expensive cable send him too big spectrum of frequencies he did not like it .. So expensive will not mean always pleasant . Of course his cable was before preamp and power amp which is a little bit different situation but it gives us an idea I think we need to think about cables like about fixed very subtle equalizers.
Love the comments where they comment on your imaging??? Any imaging heard is the system you use to watch the video, you can not hear the imaging of the system on u-tube, unless very eleborate mic setup is used, then questionable.
Tried this previously on other systems. So much so I don't bother anymore as the extra wiring would bother me more than the supposedly sound enhancement I don't notice.
Thanks for the test, I'm more interested in A+B Bi-Wiring after hearing it. I would have liked to buy a pair of Wharfedale Denton 85th and Yamaha A-S501 connected with A+B Bi-Wiring, but there is a switch on the back of the Yamaha that shows that the impedance of the speaker is 8Ω or greater when A+B is connected, but the Denton's impedance is 4Ω, does that mean I can't use it? Do I have to buy a speaker above 8Ω to use Yamaha's A+B Bi-Wiring feature?
I have a pair of the Paradigm Studio 100 v2’s hooked up to a Yamaha A-S801 and for whatever reason they sounded bad with the A+B biwiring. I put my jumpers back on and they sound great.
ive just ordered a pair of wharfedale 9.1's and was wandering if my amp could do this. I have a JVC AS-5 Amp and it has speaker a+b. however if I bi-wired my wharfedales would they be a 3 ohm load? as my amp can only run 8 ohm or higher in parallel as it can only take a 4 0hm load or higher
hi! this question im going to say ... might sound silly ... but i bought 1 pair of new speakers ... i dont want to do a bi-wiring ... i want to do the normal single way connection ... but my new speakers have those two little plaques connecting the the two pair of plugs on the back of the speakers ... my doubt is ... for me to do a "normal" single connection ... should i keep those plaques or should i remove them ... in order to do a single connection.. I know this question mught sound silly ... but ... thanks so so so much! Greetings from Portugal
You either keep them or remove them and use short wires to connect the nodes to replace the plates. Some audiophiles say replacing the plates with wires improved the sound qualitym
