The bi-wiring is complete...and an improvment to boot.

[nellis8166]

Hello All,

I spent all day tweaking my setup and I just thought I would give a little feedback.
The biggest adjustment was that I bi-wired my LSI9s and LSIC. I have to say that the difference was appearant from note 1. I just kind of sat there with my jaw wide open for quite a while. It really opened up the speakers, very smooth and clean. The biggest improvement was in the mids and highs, all I can say is WOW. I was kind of skeptical from everything I read here, but it really improved my entire soundstage. I ended up going the el cheapo route and everything from home depot and radio shack. I ran 12AWG for the lows and 16AWG for the highs. It was time consuming, that 12AWG wire is not the easiest stuff to work with to say the least.
I also cut up a mousepad and angled my center. Helped quite a bit.
Thanks to everybody who offered advice and helped me out with my questions. This really is a great service.

Nat

[MxStYlEpOlKmAn]

Originally posted by nellis8166
Hello All,

I spent all day tweaking my setup and I just thought I would give a little feedback.
The biggest adjustment was that I bi-wired my LSI9s and LSIC. I have to say that the difference was appearant from note 1. I just kind of sat there with my jaw wide open for quite a while. It really opened up the speakers, very smooth and clean. The biggest improvement was in the mids and highs, all I can say is WOW. I was kind of skeptical from everything I read here, but it really improved my entire soundstage. I ended up going the el cheapo route and everything from home depot and radio shack. I ran 12AWG for the lows and 16AWG for the highs. It was time consuming, that 12AWG wire is not the easiest stuff to work with to say the least.
I also cut up a mousepad and angled my center. Helped quite a bit.
Thanks to everybody who offered advice and helped me out with my questions. This really is a great service.

Nat

If your talking about HD 12 guage - man that stuff is HEAVY DUTY STUFF! it has a thick jacket, and some heavy duty silver and copper....highly quality junk for low price

[bertram]

How did you figure out which of the LSi9 terminals corresponded to the low driver and which to the high?

[nellis8166]

bertram,

sid helped me out with that questions, and just to be safe i read the manual that came with the speakers. says that the heavier guage wire goes on the bottom set of posts and vice versa.
sid, you are right with the home depot wire being heavy duty stuff. it's a real pain to work with, my hands and wrists are sore today from working with the stuff. it sounds great so it was worth it in the end.
nat