Bi-Wire Using A/B Speaker Terminals.

I've tried Bi-Wiring and Bi-Amping without much success. This is my final go at Bi-Wiring, but this time I'm using A+B speaker terminals. Will it finally make a difference?

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[donnaashall]

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 🙂

[mirarid]

Oh, it's this guy again. I like this guy. Watching your other video convinced me to get 12 AWG wire for my speakers.

Wow!...I can really hear a difference in the mids and upper frequency clarity...by-wiring definitely improved the sound!...nice test!

[pda]

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

[ZeitdiebX]

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.

[paulduvernet]

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.

[jhschmidMD]

Bi-amping definitely works, and you should be able to hear a difference in clarity, dynamics and speed, even with a moderately powerful HT receiver. I have my 8 ohm Polk fronts wired up that way, using the surround back amp channels as a 2nd front (per the manual), of my Denon HT receiver. Huge difference in sound for me, especially in the midrange clarity and soundstage. So much better with bi-amping. Bi wiring works also, but the difference you'll hear will be much more subtle, and probably have more to do with just getting the crappy terminal links out of the signal chain, and effectively doubling the wire gauge by adding the second run.

[gino]

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

[abelvargas]

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

[Evolved_ue]

Another good tip, if your speakers have the bi wire configuration and your amp has just the two L/R buy cables that have the bi wire at the speaker end, Why you ask, well it stops the messing about with speaker jumpers, which are usually different cable or some terrible metal jumpers . If your tri amping that's a different ball game .

[Henoxen]

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.

[briansmith]

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 😀

[neilingram]

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 👏🏻

[trulsdirio]

Honestly, you could probably improve your sound way more with decent speaker placement than any other hing you do in this setup.

[jackpaulpennington]

How the Devil are ya !! Great video once again 👍

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!

[terpkilla]

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?

[olsza]

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.

[new-kids-on-the-block]

Wel its a no brainer 2 remove the binding posts bud nice video you made

[terpkilla]

Would this not effect the omhs on the amp?