You might have misunderstood his point (I refer to that one specific point). Just because two pairs are connected to the same amp output terminals does not mean they will get the exact same signal because there are filters at the other end. For speakers designed for bi-wire and passive bi-amp, when you remove the links, the crossover will be separated into two parts so each part imposes different impedance characteristics to the pairs of cable connected to it, hence the different signals in each. In single wire, the single pair carries the whole spectrum of the signal and gets divided at the speaker terminals anyway so that the lows go to the woofer and the highs go to the tweeter, but that does not mean what the guy said was wrong. Even though he was right in that specific point, I also do not believe there will be audible difference.
I thought the bi-wire debate was a dead horse. It must be fun to keep flocking it?
This article is full of BS from the get go. I didn't make it past the first 4 paragraphs;
I agree that the removing the jumpers from the speaker terminals isolate the crossovers but that's it.
1) First of, it should be noted that speaker A and speaker B terminals are not seperate channels as incorreclty assumed by the author. They are in fact parallel taps of the output stage. So the output stage see's the speaker in its entirety, both woofer and tweeter when biwired.
2) Furthermore, the amplifier output sends full bandwidth signals across the speaker terminals because its both physically and electrically the same output stage. It cannot send different signal bandwidths from the receivers speaker terminals as they are connected electrically and physically across the same output stage.
"The situation is such that when the full range musical signal is applied to the terminals of a full-range speaker system, the woofer only gets sent low frequency signals, and the tweeter only gets sent high frequency signals. Once the crossover networks have been electrically separated, they still continue to function in the same manner, having a low impedance in their passband of application. This means that if separate speaker cables are hooked up for the woofer and it's portion of the network, and the tweeter, and it's portion of the network, not only have the speakers and the frequency's directed and divided for them, but the two separate speaker cables will now also carry different signals, the woofer cable mostly the lows, and the tweeter cable mostly the highs.
Once the highs and lows have been separated in this fashion, the strong current pulses and surges that a woofer demands when reproducing bass or drums will not interact with the delicate sounds of a flute or cymbal. The magnetic field of the low frequency signals cannot modulate or interfere with the highs, and to a lesser extent, the reverse is true. "
