In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Cessna172
wrote:
Totally agree. I think Jim is being kind, I would put the
differences as somewhere between imaginary and non-existent, once
you do the sums.

Number 1 is correct, as only you with your equipment, cables, room and
furniture can LISTEN to the results. Plenty of sums are done by
speaker manufacturers, to make sure their product is technically
brilliant, yet get them into a room and they will sound anything from
horrible to superb.

I doubt you'll find anyone who would argue with that. Room/speaker
interface is very important and easily demonstrated.

Alas, the snag in this context is that if there is a problem with the room
acoustics and its interaction with the speaker radiation patterns, then the
sensible way to deal with this is to alter the room acoustics, and/or
speaker radiation pattern - or the speaker/listening positions. Changing
the cabling is unlikely to have any effect - unless some of the cable
involved have extraordinarily inappropriate characteristics.

Same with interconnects and cables - use whatever sounds right to you.
Some people prefer the sums, some prefer the sound - it's a personal
thing.

I doubt you'll find anyone who can demonstrate this effect. ;-)

For me the situation here is, alas, as in so many other areas of audio.
That people say things in reviews, etc, but none of them seem to have ever
been able to show any reliable basis for what they say. I know of no test
on 'bi wiring' that:

1) Ensured those listening had only the sounds produced to go on.

2) Repeated the test enough times, and with a protocol, that allows anyone
to assess the reliability of the reported results.

3) Used a protocol to exclude obvious uncontrolled factors like differences
in volume level.

...and which then gave results that supported the idea that anyone could
tell bi wiring from just using single wiring.

Slainte,

Jim

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