Wiring

[Eddie V]

I know the difference between bi wiring and bi amping . Right now I have a bi amp set up . Now this picture here , not sure what it purpose is.

 

[Craig Gordon]

That picture shows a single cable to the speaker. It is neither bi wired or bi amped. Its simply connecting the tweeter and woofer together with the single cable.

 

[Eddie V]

Thanks , thank you .

 

[Speedskater]

It's interesting that the pictured speaker cable seems to be at cross purposes. A flat cable has excellent high frequency response while widely spaced wire have high frequency roll-off and the widely space wires win the frequency response contest.

Note that if the two flat cables were taped together, some older amplifiers might not be happy with the high capacitance.

 

[j_garcia]

IMO what the pic shows is someone who has no clue.

 

[Craig Gordon]

IMO what the pic shows is someone who has no clue.

I disagree. If they did not use the connector wires (One small black on left, one small red on right) the speaker would literally not emit sound in that setup. The small wires simply act as a bypass of the biwire or biamp setup and is perfectly legitimate. Although I would prefer that both flat wires used the either both top terminals, or both bottom terminals.

Basically in that setup pictured, the signal goes to both the tweeter and the woofer from one cable.

 

[j_garcia]

It says to me the person is thinking too hard about plugging wire into a speaker and suggests there is some belief that what they've done is somehow going to make things "better". It does not.

 

[hemiram]

My front speakers are Polk's and they have the same jumpers on them. They don't use the bar type, the LSIM series come with nice wire jumpers. I have "conventional" cables and they are plugged into the top jacks.

 

[Eddie V]

My whole thing was the way the speaker was wired . My system is bi amped . Works for me for now. But Iam looking at the Polk LSIM 703 .

 

[TheWarrior]

My front speakers are Polk's and they have the same jumpers on them. They don't use the bar type, the LSIM series come with nice wire jumpers. I have "conventional" cables and they are plugged into the top jacks.

I think that's what is going on in the OP image, they lost the jumpers and made their own. I see no issue with connection.

 

[Eddie V]

Which Polk LSIM model are they .

 

[j_garcia]

I think that's what is going on in the OP image, they lost the jumpers and made their own. I see no issue with connection.

Some think that swapping them out for wire helps. I've tested with the old LSis as well as Paradigm Studios, etc... it makes no difference.