Hello,
My apologies up front if this is not the proper forum location for this topic but after a few rounds of head banging I took a gamble and started the topic here as it seemed to make the most sense. Mods..Please move if you disagree
So my question is this, if you have a Mono amplifier that includes X 2 sets of binding posts (4 total for one channel) and you have a set of speakers that do not support Bi-Wiring what would be considered the ideal way to connect them up? Now I know on the surface there seems to be a fairly simple answer here but let me explain where I feel things start to get a bit "muddy" on what the answer is to this.
Looking inside the amp, lets assume that the Positive speaker output on the board has X 2 wires branching out from it that then go on to feed the pair of binding posts that represent the Positive output connections. The same configuration would apply to the Negative. Another configuration could possibly be X 1 wire off the board to X 1 Binding post that is then connected to the other mirrored Binding post in a daisy chained configuration.
Given the above wiring scenario, and then choosing to only use X 1 pair of binding posts on the amp to connect up the speaker is it possible that part of the output signal is being wasted or thrown away by being sent to the unoccupied Binding post? Even if that "wasted" part of the signal eventually finds its way back thru the circuit to the Binding post that is occupied would the damage already be done in terms of the timing it took to figure out that nothing was attached on the other end?
Would a better wiring configuration be to use a true Bi-Wire speaker cable on the Amp side into a Shotgun style connection on the speaker side (ie..4 wires into 2)? In this configuration it seems like any/all output current would have a path "OUT" to the speaker with no roadblocks involved;so to speak.
For those with this style of Amp and a non bi-wire capable speaker how are you connecting them up?
Thanks for any info or insight you can provide.
My apologies up front if this is not the proper forum location for this topic but after a few rounds of head banging I took a gamble and started the topic here as it seemed to make the most sense. Mods..Please move if you disagree
So my question is this, if you have a Mono amplifier that includes X 2 sets of binding posts (4 total for one channel) and you have a set of speakers that do not support Bi-Wiring what would be considered the ideal way to connect them up? Now I know on the surface there seems to be a fairly simple answer here but let me explain where I feel things start to get a bit "muddy" on what the answer is to this.
Looking inside the amp, lets assume that the Positive speaker output on the board has X 2 wires branching out from it that then go on to feed the pair of binding posts that represent the Positive output connections. The same configuration would apply to the Negative. Another configuration could possibly be X 1 wire off the board to X 1 Binding post that is then connected to the other mirrored Binding post in a daisy chained configuration.
Given the above wiring scenario, and then choosing to only use X 1 pair of binding posts on the amp to connect up the speaker is it possible that part of the output signal is being wasted or thrown away by being sent to the unoccupied Binding post? Even if that "wasted" part of the signal eventually finds its way back thru the circuit to the Binding post that is occupied would the damage already be done in terms of the timing it took to figure out that nothing was attached on the other end?
Would a better wiring configuration be to use a true Bi-Wire speaker cable on the Amp side into a Shotgun style connection on the speaker side (ie..4 wires into 2)? In this configuration it seems like any/all output current would have a path "OUT" to the speaker with no roadblocks involved;so to speak.
For those with this style of Amp and a non bi-wire capable speaker how are you connecting them up?
Thanks for any info or insight you can provide.