"Andy Hewitt" wrote in message
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No, it's nothing to do with resistance, it to do with the fact that each
speaker can be moving at different speeds and directions.

They generally are.

From this
there is a chance that the woofer can send distortion up the cable and
interfere with the tweeter frequencies.

So Andy, you're kinda weak on the concept of speaker crossovers?

You use a thick cable to the LF to send raw power.

As if tweeters don't need power?

The tweeter needs a cleaner signal, so you use a
thinner cable for that.

As if thin wire "cleans up" a signal?

By connecting the cables at source, and
separating them at the speaker, there is enough time to prevent the
interference.

As if the time it takes a signal to go down a typical speaker wire is
somehow audibly significant?

On a proper bi-wirable speaker, you actually feed the crossover points
separately, so the signals don't actually mix. If you bridge the
connections, you turn it into an ordinary speaker.

I read an article about this in a pro magazine somewhere, but can't
remember the exact details now, but that was the general gist of it.

Of course whether you can hear the difference or not is a personal
preference.

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Andy Hewitt
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http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/