"Andy Hewitt" wrote in message
news:1hlu85c.cjd3wv149er03N%wildrover.andy@googlem ail.com...

but then I'm a twit!

Hi Andy, please don't take the interaction to heart. There are people on
these groups who have known each other for years via usernet and are good
mates who will give each other more then has been directed at you. It is not
necessarily done with malicious intent, and many posters here have been in
your situation before.

In their less knowledgeable days these posters were no different to
yourself, seeking information from the more experienced, not knowing what
was better or not, and being given red herrings as part of the "in joke".
While you may feel this whole exercise has been worthless this is not
necessarily the case. Please come back again as you will find that at heart
the posters here are overall a reasonable bunch of blokes. The conflict is
that many posters here have done most of it and learned the hard way
(experienced) and don't want to admit to mistakes they made when learning.

It is difficult to advise or recommend audio and accessories because so much
is in the eye of the beholder (eye candy) and not supported by measurement
or blind listening tests. The quest to find something "better" is never
ending for some, difference is not necessarily better and not necessarily
worse but you will always find differences.

If there was some miracle improvement in speaker sound from bi-wiring don't
you think ALL the mixing studio monitors and professional speakers, etc,
would be wired that way. Very few of them are, and some of the ones that are
bi-wired are using propriority methods to lock the speakers to the
manufacturers amplifier.

Do some testing yourself and please get back to the group.

Best Regards,