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You can try diangonal jumping as well. connect the poitive speaker lead to the tweeter positive terminal and the neg. speaker lead to the bass negative terminal . Then jump from positive to positive and Neg. to neg.An old Audioquest trick that just may surprise you it did me. charles
..great question Gary. My biwires bifurcate about 3ft from my VR5 Annies since the speaker jacks on the upper and lower cabinets are several feet apart. For the life of me I can't think what difference it would make to simply land the single run cable on one cabinet's jacks and install a jumper. Of course this just one of many things that perplex me
Leif 8660 is correct. Bi-wiring gives you more clarity, a larger sound stage, more detail with less treble distortion, and more depth. However, the speakers have to use physically seperated circuit boards, one for each frequency band, so that the inductor coils don't bleed signal from bass coils to the midrange and tweeter coils on the circuit boards. Also, a single cable with a jumper is not sufficient - you need to use a properly designed bi-wire cable or alternately, two speaker cables run from each amplifier channel to the two pairs of binding posts on the speaker.See John Atkinsons tests in Stereophile on the original B&W 801 speaker where he discovered that the inductors placed too closely on the circuit board actually caused crosstalk, modulation, and hence distortion into the midrange and tweeter from the woofer inductor coils. This same effect can occur when using a single cable with jumper.Not all manufacturers can do everything perfectly! In the case of circuit design, we are The Masters Of The Universe. (Just kidding). Some types of bi-wire cables bundle the four conductors together, which creates cross talk and signal modulation inside the cable itself. The two pairs of conductors have to be specifically designed tp prevent the this effect. Shielding can work, but better yet, a specific winding geometry works best of all, according to engineers at Delphi Aerospace, the creators of the Master-Built cable products we now use exclusively.By the way, did you know that filters are based on impedance, not frequency? That is why bass signals will not travel up a cable to a tweeter circuit, and vice versa. There is simply too much resistance (also known as impedance in alternating current circuits, i.e. musical sine wave signals). It's like pouring water on the side of a hill -- gravity (impedance) forces the water to to flow downhill, not uphill. As Albert Einstein once remarked, the simplest solution is often always the correct solution.
By the way, did you know that filters are based on impedance, not frequency? That is why bass signals will not travel up a cable to a tweeter circuit, and vice versa. There is simply too much resistance (also known as impedance in alternating current circuits, i.e. musical sine wave signals). It's like pouring water on the side of a hill -- gravity (impedance) forces the water to to flow downhill, not uphill. As Albert Einstein once remarked, the simplest solution is often always the correct solution.
The reason why a jumper does not sound nearly as good as a bi-wire cable is because there is no separation between the ground wire going to the bass crossover and the midrange/treble crossover. As we have found many years ago, the bass signal modulates the weaker treble signal unless there are separate ground wires for both the bass and treble. We have done so many A/BX comparison test of single wire with a jumper vs bi-wire that we know what we are talking about. There is no comparison.
Are there certain exceptions to this rule, depending on the design of the speaker cable?I currently have a pair of VR 35's, and I'm using with great success a single run of MG Audio's ribbon speaker cables with jumpers. The manufacture states that their speaker cable doesn't work well in a bi-wire configuration. "We do not recommend bi-wiring with Planus speaker wire because the wire’s topology is not designed for maximum performance in this configuration"I'm inclined to believe the manufacture knows best about their speaker wire technology, but now I'm curious how much better the VR 35's might sound bi-wired with speaker cable designed for that purpose. Any other Von Schweikert users using MG Audio speaker cables? Would love to hear some feedback on this matter.
..not MGs but ribbons...me like
There's a difference between what's best for their particular wire versus what's best for the speaker - meaning if you could find some other wires that otherwise had the same sonic signature of the MGs but were amenable to bi-wiring, that would sound better than with a single wire and a jumper using the MGs
Are you bi-wiring with them, or using jumpers?
gme109, you can always use two sets of single run cables and attach both to one set of amp terminals. Same result as using specifically configured biwire cables.
Is there a website for Masterbuilt cables? Would like to get more info on prices and products.
