shrink
pfm Member
The only thing I think in bi-wire's favour is that you can connect it to two separate amps. If you're not doing that, I doubt it has any real effect in practice. My speakers came with decent quality jumper cables so I single wired and am happy with the sound. I'm more intrigued by the additional earth connection each speaker has and whether to experiment with connecting it somewhere. Also interesting that amps don't have a specific 'earth' connection for speaker cable, in a way that might have been useful.
the problem here is that passive biamping is also a complete waste of time. How does the amplifier in a passive setup have any idea what goes on beyond the crossover. Reality is, it doesn’t.
In a passive setup the amplifier doesn’t know its driving anything big, or small. Therefore it still sends out a full bandwidth signal to the speaker and the potential advantage of biamping is totally lost. Passive systems can’t benefit. The only way to benefit from biamping is to have the crossover before the amplifier, not after.
the only tiny tiny potentially tangible benefit to passive biamping, is that now you don’t have one amplifier seeing the load characteristics of two runs of cable. Instead each amp only has to worry about one.
but then just use one amp, and one run of cable. Problem solved. Literally all that second amp is doing, is compensating for the use of a second cable. Any other benefits are purely imagined in a passive rig.