is bigger actually better?
- While it is a common practice to be encouraged to add something that resembles heavy duty jumper cables between your amp and speakers, it is within both of them where the biggest clue lies as to what is appropropriate. When you look inside an amplifier you find micron thick tracks that are a few millimeters wide, cabling of not significantly greater proportions is commonly a speakers internal wiring that carries the signal from the cross-over to the drive unit, to the wire that connects a speakers internal wiring to the voice coil which is a very fine braid made of several very fine strands of copper wire to maintain optimum flexibility.
- So the answer is size is not what is important, and a fire hose from the garden tap doesn't make much sense either, but the crital aspects are lay and composition, and more importantly the ability to transfer with ease all mastered information to the sensitive coils at the far end which give life to the music.
should i bi - wire my speakers?
- If your speakers have the ability to be bi-wired then there are many acoustic benefits in doing this, and considering that no matter whether it is from a single set of speaker outputs, Dual/ A & B speaker outputs, or seperate amplification, the signal is being derived from the same source. There are active crossover solutions to limit the frequency range being applied to seperate amplifiers, however that is adding more to the signal path which I feel is far outweighed by improving the flow of energy from your amplifier to your speakers with carefully selected cables, this provides your speakers crossovers with a much better oportunity to show thier strengths.
- It might seem confusing that on one hand I suggest that a firehose sized cable would be detrimentle and then suggest adding more cable into the system being beneficial, but as with the reasoning behind selecting cable appropriate for your systems capabilities, it is again the quality that brings music to life.
- To elaborate further, if you can comprehend that a speaker is a load that draws the power from you amplifier, then in simple terms this aides the seperation of freqencies being drawn through a cable, and the interaction of those loads within the cable, and through the magic of audio does demonstrate very tangible benefits.