Bi-wire or single wire

F.Galway

I've been unsure for a while should I keep my speakers bi-wired via a single binding post or should I just use one of the sets of binding posts on the speakers.Am I gaining anything from bi-wiring when its only off one binding post?

Slaphead07

F.Galway wrote: »

Am I gaining anything from bi-wiring when its only off one binding post?

Not really. Speaker companies have been putting 2 sets of connections on their speakers for years as a marketing tool. Unless you're going to bi-amp, where you'd use a separate amp to drive fow and high frequencies it will make little, if any, audible difference.

Now... in case I've misunderstood you.... are you saying to have 2 posts and one run of cable and the cable only goes to one pair of posts? If so you have a small problem. The signal from teh amp is going to either the woofer or tweeter but not both.
Assuming you have one cable for each (+ and -) channel/speaker all you need to do is ensure that the binding posts on the speakers are connected to each other... i.e. + low to + high and - low to - high.

in this pic they're joined by brass jumpers but you can use short lenghts of speaker cable (be neat!) just as well.

Idleater

Slaphead07 wrote: »

Not really. Speaker companies have been putting 2 sets of connections on their speakers for years as a marketing tool. Unless you're going to bi-amp, where you'd use a separate amp to drive fow and high frequencies it will make little, if any, audible difference.

I inverse bi-wire. The poweramp has 4 binding posts and the speakers have two.

F.Galway

I had basically followed this set up fo rthe speakers
http://www.brilliancehifi.co.uk/how-to-bi-wire-speakers.htm
and the sound is good from them. Any thoughts on banana plugging the end going into the avr whereby the two wires for each channel are connected through a single plug.The isn't anything to be gained from it is there beside ease of use for connecting?