Bi Wire speakers For home cinema system

Question

I have a set of B&W speakers which can be bi-wired could anyone give me an idea of how to do this i.e which terminals do the other end of the cables go and do I need to take the little metal strip between the speaker terminals off or keep it on. I hope that makes sense Thanks.

Answer 1

This will explain to you exactly what you need to do.

http://www.brilliancehifi.co.uk/how-to-b...

Its very simple to do. Good choice of speaker btw.

Answer 2

Make sure your receiver is off.  To bi-wire, first take the metal bridges off.  Then get a speaker cable that has one set of "+" and "-" connectors for the amp/receiver end, and the other end having two sets of "+" and "-" coonnectors. You will need two of these cables for a stereo pair to power the front L & R channels.  Now,plug the the single set of each speaker cable into the amp/receiver, and then take the dual set side of each cable and plug them into the speakers.

(LEFT CHANNEL)

AMP          

[-] [+]

SPEAKER

[-] [+]

[-] [+]

(RIGHT CHANNEL)

AMP          

[-] [+]

SPEAKER

[-] [+]

[-] [+]

Happy listening!

Answer 3

I am not a fan of bi-wiring.

Running 1 speaker wire to a speaker with the jumper plates connects all the drivers to the speaker wires.

Running 3 sets of speaker wires from the same output on the receiver to the 3 jacks with the jumper plates removed - is electrically the same - but at the cost of more runs of speaker wires.

And frankly - you wont notice much difference with a movie soundtrack. You MIGHT notice a smidge of difference with music (which is a lot more dense/more information), but this is due to the extra resistance of 3 runs of wires.