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In , on 03/01/04
at 01:24 AM, (unitron) said:

"Bob Saccamano" wrote in message
... I
have a pair of speakers that support bi-wiring and bi-amping. I only
have one aplifier. Will I appreciate any improvements in sound by
bi-wiring alone?

If you run bi-wiring in your situation you will be bypassing the
crossover circuitry in your speaker cabinet, thus asking the
individual drivers (woofer and tweeter) to try to reproduce
frequencies for which they were not designed.

[ ... ]

No.

If a speaker provides bi-wire terminals, there are two independent
crossovers inside. (As if there are two independent speakers sharing
the same box, designed to operate in parallel as a single [typically 4
or 8 Ohm] unit.) There is a low pass for the woofer and a high pass
crossover for the midrange and/or tweeter. In this sort of speaker
neither the amplifier or speaker can know and or care if there is a
regular or bi-wire connection in use.

For a speaker that does not provide external bi-wire connections there
may be issues if you attempt to hack the crossover into two pieces.
Some crossovers provide an internal jumper that can be removed to split
the crossover into two sections.

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About half of the "magic" attributed to improved wiring is caused by
the happy side effect of the mechanical trauma associated with removing
the old wires and inserting the new wires (scraping away much of the
oxides and other contamination that have been slowly degrading the
sound). Generally, the external "link" connecting the two crossover
sections for users not supplying the two sets of wires is poorly
designed and improperly installed. Eliminating that link is an
improvement.

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