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Do a search on Ebay for "bi-wire jumpers" and there are lots of options if you want to spend money!
I tried the bell-wire speaker cable years ago when I got my first proper hifi but 79 strand type stuff was clearly better, but that 2.5mm Van Damme stuff is good enough and the run short enough to just buy some and close this thread. Make some jumpers from this cable, or just strip it back further and connect across the two terminals.
Because I didn’t think of it, alright! I’m a numpty!! 😀
I wouldn’t say so. The problem with HiFi is that all the smoke and mirrors makes it confusing. It’s a feature not a bug 😀
Van Damme is quality cable and the 1.5mm or 2.5mm will do you for anything (including making a jumper).
Bi-wiring does nothing useful, and even bi-amping doesn’t do anything you can’t achieve more conveniently by using a single amp with twice the power.
It’s only relevant for speakers with no internal passive crossover, where you’d use an active line-level crossover before a dedicated amp for each driver (amplifying only the relevant band, not the full-range signal).
You mostly find that in PA speakers or studio monitors, but some hi-fi speakers are fully active too (electronic crossovers and amplifiers built into the speakers). I’d buy some PMC or Kii active speakers if I ever find myself with significantly more money than sense.
I wouldn’t, under any circumstances, argue the toss with the Quad crew! If anyone is going to know what cable works with high-end kit, they will.
I don’t get that, as Quad gear is mid-range stuff in the hifi sphere of pricing, and people that buy it are generally not the audiophile cable/tube rolling types of people.
Yeah, well, that might be the case now, but when I discovered Quad gear, the sort of stuff I was comparing it with was cheap chipboard tower systems! This is a pair of electrostatic ESL-57’s that the brother of my best mate had, early 1970’s. Perhaps you might like to check out what sort of audio systems were available 50 years ago.
Perhaps you might like to check out what sort of audio systems were available 50 years ago.
Can only stretch to about 40ish, first hifi demo was 38 years ago, bought Quad, Rogers, Manticore, Nakamichi, Hitachi (tuner), rejected Audiolab and Musical Fidelity.