Do TAD owners generally Biwire? I had quite a revelation.

[Avidlistener]

I have been bi-wiring for so many years I didn’t have much experience with single wire on my CR1’s, which I’ve owned for over 12 years.

I actually quad wire, since I run subs at high level and an electrostatic super tweeter as well, from 2 pairs of binding posts on my amps.

I recently reviewed the AGD Audion GAN amps for The Absolute Sound’s YouTube channel

Due to the amps single binding posts and only having banana plugs on the Iconoclast speaker cables I use, I had do the review single wire and use the jumpers TAD provides.

Once the review was over, I just left the BHK amps hooked single wire for a few weeks, using the Iconoclast top series 2 cable which usually just powers the concentric driver. I thought there might even be a benefit since the woofer was being fed by a better cable than the series 1 which is used with biwire.

After switching back to Biwire, I couldn’t believe how much better the entire spectrum sounded. Less congested! Iconoclast actually recommends the combo of series 2 on top, series 1 on bottom, claiming it flattens out the impedance (beyond my understanding of such things)

What have other TAD owners found?

 

[Erik-Alexander]

I have been bi-wiring for so many years I didn’t have much experience with single wire on my CR1’s, which I’ve owned for over 12 years.

I actually quad wire, since I run subs at high level and an electrostatic super tweeter as well, from 2 pairs of binding posts on my amps.

I recently reviewed the AGD Audion GAN amps for The Absolute Sound’s YouTube channel

Due to the amps single binding posts and only having banana plugs on the Iconoclast speaker cables I use, I had do the review single wire and use the jumpers TAD provides.

Once the review was over, I just left the BHK amps hooked single wire for a few weeks, using the Iconoclast top series 2 cable which usually just powers the concentric driver. I thought there might even be a benefit since the woofer was being fed by a better cable than the series 1 which is used with biwire.

After switching back to Biwire, I couldn’t believe how much better the entire spectrum sounded. Less congested! Iconoclast actually recommends the combo of series 2 on top, series 1 on bottom, claiming it flattens out the impedance (beyond my understanding of such things)

What have other TAD owners found?

I don’t use bi-wire on my CR1TX. The TAD M700 doesn’t have a double output. Currently I use the Purest Audio Design 25th Anniversary cable with the TAD Jumpers. Sound is very good, but also highly expensive cables. Now I will replace them with Skogrand Stravinsky speaker cable plus Stravinsky Jumpers, handmade for these speakers. Within a week I can tell you more. I’ve yet to read a negative review about the Skogrand cables. So far I expect improvement but hard to believe it is going to be wild, since the PAD cables are top as well. But let’s see. A bi-wire set of Skogrand cables would be very expensive so not an option for me.

 

[Avidlistener]

Just FYI you can biwire with a single set of binding posts on the amp, as long as one cable has spades and the other cable has banana plugs - at least on one end.

Perhaps you can a borrow a set of cables with the correct terminations to try this. I'm about to swap one set of my speaker cables (Iconoclast) to spades so that I can bi-wire amps with only set of posts. My current BHK300 amps have dual binding posts, but I want to audition some amps with single binding posts and see if I get the significant benefit of bi-wiring I'm experiencing now.

 

[Erik-Alexander]

Just FYI you can biwire with a single set of binding posts on the amp, as long as one cable has spades and the other cable has banana plugs - at least on one end.

Perhaps you can a borrow a set of cables with the correct terminations to try this. I'm about to swap one set of my speaker cables (Iconoclast) to spades so that I can bi-wire amps with only set of posts. My current BHK300 amps have dual binding posts, but I want to audition some amps with single binding posts and see if I get the significant benefit of bi-wiring I'm experiencing now.

I could try with my current cables plus the new ones. Just for the experience. New ones for mid-high.

 

[Amir]

I use two complete set of speaker cable one pair for mid one pair for bass

 

[AudioLibertarian]

I use two complete set of speaker cable one pair for mid one pair for bass

That is the best way!

When using a single speaker wire with two pairs of speaker connectors, speakers drivers "get" just HALF of wire, in my extensive experimentation the resultant performance in most cases will be worse than using single wire with jumpers .