av L
Standard Member
For years now I've been bi-wiring my speakers, on the assumption that if there were 4x terminals on the back of a speaker, this would provide the best possible sound quality....
This said, although I'd experimented many a time with speaker placement/listening positions & come to the conclusion that I'd optimised to the max, the sound never quite jelled for me & always sounded unrealistic. Yes, instruments & voices were very pinpoint & defined, but it just never sounded 'Right' to me, which I put down to the quality of my speakers & room acoustics, etc....
Anyway to cut a long story short, I'd been meaning for some time now to rewire the cables feeding the speakers, from 4 individual connectors to 2, and simply bridging the connections on the back of the speakers i.e. positive to positive/negative to negative - I decided to take the plunge this weekend & bite the bullet....
Anyway once completed, I sat down for a listen & wasn't expecting much of a difference, in fact I thought the situation would be for the worst.....but how wrong could I have been!
Straight away, it was evident that the sound was natural, and whilst instruments weren't quite as pinpoint as before, the music & voices just sounded natural & airy, the bass was tight, etc - in fact it was what I'd been after all along, and found myself having a truly long session, listening to my favourite tracks throughout the rest of the day!
I'm a happy boy
This said, although I'd experimented many a time with speaker placement/listening positions & come to the conclusion that I'd optimised to the max, the sound never quite jelled for me & always sounded unrealistic. Yes, instruments & voices were very pinpoint & defined, but it just never sounded 'Right' to me, which I put down to the quality of my speakers & room acoustics, etc....
Anyway to cut a long story short, I'd been meaning for some time now to rewire the cables feeding the speakers, from 4 individual connectors to 2, and simply bridging the connections on the back of the speakers i.e. positive to positive/negative to negative - I decided to take the plunge this weekend & bite the bullet....
Anyway once completed, I sat down for a listen & wasn't expecting much of a difference, in fact I thought the situation would be for the worst.....but how wrong could I have been!
Straight away, it was evident that the sound was natural, and whilst instruments weren't quite as pinpoint as before, the music & voices just sounded natural & airy, the bass was tight, etc - in fact it was what I'd been after all along, and found myself having a truly long session, listening to my favourite tracks throughout the rest of the day!
I'm a happy boy