Bi-Wire question
Bi-Wire question
i just bought a old set of MB quarts Q series, is there any benefits of running it bi-wire instead of standard? im only gonna run a alpine 2channel amp to them.
If you are only going to run a 2 channel amp to a set you cannot bi-wire them. You need a four channel for that. The benefits are total control of the tweeter and the mid bass.
i think you are talking about bi-amp, thats when you can use a four channel or 2 seperate amps running into the crossover.
in the instruction its says i can use two wires on each the + and - from the amp connecting to both the "high pass" and the "low pass" on the crossover to get a "bi-wire" mode.
in the instruction its says i can use two wires on each the + and - from the amp connecting to both the "high pass" and the "low pass" on the crossover to get a "bi-wire" mode.
Bi-wiring is voodoo in my opinion. In a car you struggle to hear the speakers at all over the road noise and engine sounds ... you're not going to hear intermodulation distortion. Most of the drivers I've heard don't hear their amplifiers clipping at 10-15% THD let alone something as subtle as IM distortion. 
If you look at the amplifier as a current source, then for amplifiers and receivers that are capable of supplying lots of current into low impedances, biwiring could offer theoretical advantages, by eliminating potential intermodulation distortion between the low- and high-frequency portions of the audio signal. Using biwiring, this distortion would not occur because the low-frequency part of the speaker crossover would draw the current it needs for the woofers (and they need lots of current) through one speaker cable, while the midrange tweeter section would draw less current (it doesn't need as much) through its own speaker cable. This could prevent intermodulation distortion that may occur using one big “fire hose” or single speaker cable. (Using two cables per speaker will also lower total resistance to the audio signal—and that is well and good, although a single run of 12-gauge cable to each speaker will keep resistance to an insignificant level, well below 0.3 ohms.)
Will it sound any different if you biwire? Some users think it does, but I've never heard any differences, nor have any of our laboratory measurements or scientifically controlled double blind listening tests ever demonstrated there are audible differences.
Will it sound any different if you biwire? Some users think it does, but I've never heard any differences, nor have any of our laboratory measurements or scientifically controlled double blind listening tests ever demonstrated there are audible differences.
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