First of all remove the links on both the speakers.  Then if you are using two pairs of speaker cable for each speaker, wire up each speaker as follows:

(1) one red wire to the upper red (or +ve) terminal on the back of the speaker, with the black wire to the upper black (or -ve) terminal,

(2) the second red wire to the lower red terminal on the rear of the speaker, with the second black wire to the lower black speaker terminal,

(3) at the amplifier end, connect both the red wires together and to the appropriate red terminal of the amplifier (ie. the left hand channel for the left hand speaker)  Do the same for the black wires.

(4) repeat step (3) for the other channel.

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Going to give this a whirl. I've never bothered with bi wiring before - I use cheap silver jumpers - but Audio Note recommend it and this cable looks good value so why the hell not! Go crazy and wild!

As always,many thanks for your help.

OK – a possible wiring scheme would be as follows:

On one speaker (say the left hand one)

(1) connect the red wire to the top red (+ve) speaker terminal
(2) connect the black wire to the top black (-ve) speaker terminal
(3) connect the orange wire to the bottom red (+ve) speaker terminal
(4) connect the blue wire to the bottom black (-ve) speaker terminal

then at the amplifier end:

(5) connect the red and orange wires together at the amplifier’s left-hand channel red output terminal
(6) connect the black and blue wires together at the amplifier’s left-hand channel black output terminal.

Repeat the above for the right-hand speaker and the right-hand amplifier output.


(Again, don’t forget to remove the connecting links on both speakers.)

Hooked it all up,as per instructions, and have to say I'm delighted.

Thanks again.

Bloody marvellous mate. I've just updated the speaker thread with my thoughts.

I used a couple of different speaker cables before,always cheap stuff as I don't believe da hype, 6mm plain stuff and 4mm Supra but this studio spares stuff is very good.
Thick rubber coating then a string/paper inner and 4 decent wires. Hooked onto silver banana plugs.

Seems to be a bit more "open" and lighter if that makes any sense.

I'm delighted with it.

One way you could attempt to hear what bi-wiring does is to run the bi-wire sets in parallel, with the links left on the crossover, compared with running in true split configuration. I don't know how much value such an exercise would be, though.

The effects of bi-wiring are:

LCR changes
Resistance halves
capacitance doubles
inductance halves

(realworld translation: sounds half as distorted and cloudy)
This is the effect of making a double cable run (i.e biwiring)


Sorry Richard, you summed it it brilliantly without even realising it!

My take: biwiring can make an improvement, but not as much as getting better speaker cable in there in the first place - and it needn't be expensive)

Well, that last assessment is usually correct (and don't forget, I am so immune to cable discussions it's untrue). However, it's not unheard of for someone who has a 'better' cable in there to want a bit more. That bit more can, with the right speaker/amp combination, come from another set of cables.

Richard's position is correct in respect of ascertaining the actual effect of bi-wiring a particular speaker but that's more useful to someone who's developing a speaker cable or a speaker than it is to the owner of the speaker.  Having the information in your possession though, is a good thing, as it gives you another flavour which you may prefer.

In my limited experience of bi-wiring, it's most usual that it makes almost no difference as to be not worth doing.  But one or two speakers respond incredibly well to being bi- or tri-wired. The key thing is to live with the change for a few weeks and then go back and have a listen to the way things used to be.  You might be surprised to find that what you thought was better was just different.

Aye, so you say...