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Bi wiring Crappy speakers? and Heresys


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Will it help my Fishers? My fishers arnt that great, so they can use all the help they can get, will Bi Wiring help?

Plus, Bi wiring the Heresys, would that help them a good deal?

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Living Room:

Yamaha Natural Sound A-500 Stereo Amplifier

2 Klipsch Heresys on A switch

2 Fisher STV-873 on B switch

My Room:

Klipsch Pro Medias

2 Fisher Surrounds

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dw, to biwire, the speakers really have to be biwirable. that is, they have the seperate terminals on the back each connected to the respective high & low drivers. i.e. most of the reference & the legend towers do have, but none of the heritage do.

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Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear)

Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer

Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable

Marantz SR-8000 receiver

Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player

Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv

Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr

Technics dual cassette deck

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box

Boa's Listenin Lounge:

Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear)

Monster MCX Biwires

Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver

Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975)

Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3

Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer

Technics direct drive turntable

Sega Genesis game player

Sub: None yet

rock on!

This message has been edited by boa12 on 06-11-2001 at 01:33 AM

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I have done it with Heresy 2's using Synergistic silver speaker cable. There is a difference but it is not huge.

My guess is that the difference comes from dropping the impedance from 8 to 4 ohms. Using both A&B speaker connections I think I am raising the power from 90 wpc to 130 wpc on my Accuphase E211.

The result seems to me to be slightly better staging and more clearly defined bass - maybe slightly better driven woofer. I stuck with it on the basis that more bass on a heresy is never a bad thing.

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yes max, sounds like my biwiring of the rf-3 & klf-30 results are similar to yours.

are the heresy II biwirable from klipsch or did u do your own biwiring or are they maybe that way only in Europe?

if they are biwirable from klipsch, strike that none of the heritage statement i made above dwk. though i think u do have the older heresy I(?) learn something everyday cwm12.gif

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Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear)

Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer

Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable

Marantz SR-8000 receiver

Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player

Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv

Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr

Technics dual cassette deck

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box

Boa's Listenin Lounge:

Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear)

Monster MCX Biwires

Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver

Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975)

Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3

Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer

Technics direct drive turntable

Sega Genesis game player

Sub: None yet

rock on!

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My Heresys, are NOT biwireable.

We have the olderones. Max has the Newer ones.

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Living Room:

Yamaha Natural Sound A-500 Stereo Amplifier

2 Klipsch Heresys on A switch

2 Fisher STV-873 on B switch

My Room:

Klipsch Pro Medias

2 Fisher Surrounds

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yes dwk. i don't see anything on any heresy II that says they come biwirable. guess we have to actually look at the back of 'em or find out from knowledgable owners like max cwm1.gif

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Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear)

Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer

Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable

Marantz SR-8000 receiver

Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player

Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv

Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr

Technics dual cassette deck

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box

Boa's Listenin Lounge:

Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear)

Monster MCX Biwires

Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver

Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975)

Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3

Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer

Technics direct drive turntable

Sega Genesis game player

Sub: None yet

rock on!

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Oh guys don't call me knowledgable for heavens sakes. No, the Heresy (2's) are not biwirable - there is only one set of binding posts, however...

If you cable in one set using the bare wire screwed in and the other via banana plugs then you have connected A & B speaker outs to the speakers. This is not true biwiring obviously but it does reduce the impedance, increase the watts, increase the amount of cable, and affect the sound.

We did a simple blind test with a friend switching the speaker A or B on or off and me saying whether we had one of both connected. Surprisingly to me I was right 100% of the time. It does make a difference.

Hope this clarifies things.

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thanks max. then strike my strike above. cwm12.gif

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Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear)

Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer

Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable

Marantz SR-8000 receiver

Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player

Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv

Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr

Technics dual cassette deck

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box

Boa's Listenin Lounge:

Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear)

Monster MCX Biwires

Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver

Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975)

Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3

Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer

Technics direct drive turntable

Sega Genesis game player

Sub: None yet

rock on!

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