Keith G wrote:

"andy" wrote in message
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Andy Hewitt wrote:
Yup, I know all that too. However, what astonished me was the nature of
the responses. Ok, so I spouted on about a practice you no longer
believe in, but it was not always so, biwiring is something that *was*
regularly recommended by many as a good thing. I just missed the bit
where it became a *bad* thing.

This is utter nonsense. Nobody with even a modest grasp of the
technical basics has ever recommended biwiring in the sense of the
extra cost being justified in terms of audible improvements. However,
the audiophile industry has heavily promoted biwiring and biwiring is
well received by audiophiles. As far as I am aware, nobody has said it
is a bad thing just that it is not cost effective and the claims of
significant improvements made for it by the audiophile industry and
believers are largely false.

I don't do 'biwiring debates' because my view is simple - I don't believe it
does any good myself, but if anybody wants to do it, can afford to do it and
perceives a benefit then, fine, let them go ahead!! Let them also claim they
perceive the benefit - it does no harm and others can only disagree with
their own findings. Arguing the theory goes nowhere....

There will certainly be a measurable difference ( possibly audible ) however
neither is absolutely right or wrong !


What I find strange/amusing is that so many speaker manufacturers a) supply
the necessary terminals and b) state that biwiring is advantageous - they
just telling porkies or do they know summat the 'experts' here don't...??

They know the power of reviews/ advertising / marketing.

I was talking to a chap last week who occupies a position kind of mid-way
between pro-audio ( recording, mastering etc ) and the hi-fi lads. He was
talking about a hi-fi product launch and quite simply said words to the effect
"it doesn't really matter if it's any damn good or not - all that matters is
that the reviewer thinks it is ". Things like 'getting the reviewer in the right
frame of mind' were mentioned.

Graham