How Do You Bi-Wire Home Audio Loudspeakers?
The sonic difference of bi-wiring your loudspeakers will be audible as long as you did your homework and matched the right speakers with the right amplification and source equipment. In other words, you can’t make a frog into a prince if you’re bi-wiring those hot-rodded new speakers with an underpowered amplifier or receiver. Bi-wired speakers employ crossover frequency filters. With the binding post jumper bars removed the crossover frequency filters direct the high and low frequency connections from the amplifier to the corresponding connections at the speaker terminals. Stereo speakers that are bi-wired have a cleaner sound because separating the amplification of the high and low frequencies lowers the distortion at the amp, sending a less distorted signal to the speaker’s crossover frequency filters. When bi-wiring, two sets of speaker cables are used (one positive and one negative) for each channel. One set of cables is wired to the high frequency (tweeter) binding posts, while t
