On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:39:49 -0700, codifus wrote
(in article ):
On Mar 13, 2:10*pm, "Serge Auckland"
wrote:
"Walt" wrote in message
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Serge Auckland wrote:
"Bob Myers" wrote in message
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Walt wrote:
Bob Myers wrote:
In other words - exactly what is it that bi-wiring is believed
to do, and how?
... *Bi-wiring can't work, unless the laws of physics are somehow
suspended...
If anyone has any theory or hypothesis to propose, lets hear it and test
it,
There's a fairly simple scientific explanation that's been around since
the 50's and has stood up to rigorous hypothesis testing. *At this point
the principle is as valid a scientific theory as circuit theory,
although not as readily quantifiable.
Solomon Asche did the early work in this field. *You can read about it
he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_co...ty_experiments
//Walt
In other words, it's all in the mind, together with peer pressure to
conform. If everyone tells you it's better, then you too believe it's
better.
Nothing to do with audio, or circuit theory or anything else physical.
S.
--http://audiopages.googlepages.com
That is one way to look at it. Another? Everyone in this thread says
that bi-wiring doesn't work. Does that mean that you and all the
others are conforming?
Far be it for me to side with everyone else.
"Siding" is irrelevant. Look at bi-wiring the way you would look at a claim
that someone could flap their arms and fly like a bird. It can't happen.
Believing that it can happen won't suddenly make it happen, no matter how
fervently one believes it. Bi-wiring is simply connecting the two sets of
speaker binding posts on the back of the speaker together. Whether one does
that with the supplied shorting straps at the speaker terminals, or with a
couple of runs of speaker cable at the amplifier, the result is electrically
the same.