|   How to Biwire | gnatlee
Jul 22, 2001 7:38 AM | | I just bought a yamaha 5250 at good guys for 249.00. it's on sale until 7/26 i think. i want to use an old pair of panasonic speakers that requires biwiring. i don't know what this mean. on the speaker cabinet there are four wire ports + and - for highs at 8 ohms and + and - for the low at 6 ohms. i don't know how i can biwire them to my new receiver. thanks for the help. |
| re: How to Biwire | noremacyug
Jul 22, 2001 11:54 AM | | all biwiring means is that the speaker is capable of being run from two amps. one to power the highs and the other for the lows. you can power your speakers with your reciever by making some "jumper" wires. all you have to do is take some small pieces of speaker wire and hook up the + high port on your speakers to the + low port. and do the sae for the - high and low ports. connect your reciever to a + and a - port and you should have it. |
| re: How to Biwire | gnatlee
Jul 22, 2001 10:02 PM | | thanks for the help, but is it okay to jumper the 6 ohm driver to the 8 ohm drivers? |
| re: How to Biwire | gilfordo
Jul 23, 2001 7:59 AM | | As I understand it, you don't need 2 amps. Run a separate wire from each pair of terminals in the back of the speaker and connect both pairs to the same speaker terminal in back of the receiver. Or you can run one pair to the "A" speakers and one to the "B" speakers. The idea is that then the signal is divided BEFORE going through the long bottleneck that is the speaker wire so there is less resistance in each pair---therefore, freer flowing signal.
I am fairly new to this myself so maybe some of you veterans out there can confirm this.
GO |
| re: How to Biwire | slinger
Jul 23, 2001 4:09 PM | | In regards to the 2 amp post - incorrect. That is called bi-amping. Entirely different beast.
Essentially, bi-wiring is the process of running 2 wires (hence "bi") for seperate speakers (that allow this) instead of the single wire. Example: run one wire from the R (right speaker) +/- receiver output connectors to the lower +/- right speaker posts. You would then run another wire from the same receiver output connectors to the upper +/- right speaker posts, respectively. Repeat for left or whatever other speakers that you own that allow bi-wiring. Just make sure you remove the jumper connecting the upper and lower speaker posts!!
Here's a couple links that cover the process and the philosophy:
http://www.davidmannaudio.com/faq/faq3.html (this site displays how it is done with a simple diagram)
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/jon_risch/biwiring.htm
It may be just as well that instead of spending money on a second run of cabling for bi-wiring, spend it on better cables. You may find it more worth your while.
Regards, <> |
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