hi,
I've just biwired my floorstanders (having run them for 150+ hrs from new) and have found something I didn't expect. Firstly the sound was much clearer and detailed using bi-wire but, there is way less bass .... to the point where some of the bass is only present in my surrounds (also 150+ hrs from new), which are not atm biwired. To check i wired one floorstander back to normal and kepted one biwired. This highlighted the lack of bass in the biwired one (and also showed the clearer detail). I then redid the auto setup and found my amp listing my floorstanders as small (while biwired) and my surrounds (not biwired) as large. I re-wired them back to normal and they came up as large .
I check all conections, rechecked them and after a cuppa checked them again.... and found nothing wrong. I even switched the bi-wire to the other speaker and re-listened. Still the same...
So the question is (horray !!!), is this common with bi-wireing ? (this is my first try). Or am I missing somthing ?, need better wire ?, etc.....
floorstanders - Mordant Short 906
surround - Mordant Short 902
normal cable - Gale Hyperlitz
biwire cable - Gale XL160 Biwire
amp - Yam dspax750 (using a+b speaker selection)
Any help, info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I all out of ideas and knowledge (av n00b).
thanks
spk
p.s. excuse my excessive detail if it wasn't needed but, after reading other posts after a search on this topic i thought it best to include as much info as possible but did decide to stop before posting a copy of my birth certificate
I've just biwired my floorstanders (having run them for 150+ hrs from new) and have found something I didn't expect. Firstly the sound was much clearer and detailed using bi-wire but, there is way less bass .... to the point where some of the bass is only present in my surrounds (also 150+ hrs from new), which are not atm biwired. To check i wired one floorstander back to normal and kepted one biwired. This highlighted the lack of bass in the biwired one (and also showed the clearer detail). I then redid the auto setup and found my amp listing my floorstanders as small (while biwired) and my surrounds (not biwired) as large. I re-wired them back to normal and they came up as large .
I check all conections, rechecked them and after a cuppa checked them again.... and found nothing wrong. I even switched the bi-wire to the other speaker and re-listened. Still the same...
So the question is (horray !!!), is this common with bi-wireing ? (this is my first try). Or am I missing somthing ?, need better wire ?, etc.....
floorstanders - Mordant Short 906
surround - Mordant Short 902
normal cable - Gale Hyperlitz
biwire cable - Gale XL160 Biwire
amp - Yam dspax750 (using a+b speaker selection)
Any help, info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I all out of ideas and knowledge (av n00b).
thanks
spk
p.s. excuse my excessive detail if it wasn't needed but, after reading other posts after a search on this topic i thought it best to include as much info as possible but did decide to stop before posting a copy of my birth certificate