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Diy bi amp speaker cable.
The 1 618wr speaker cables turned out well and i thought i would share the instructions and results.
Speakers have one of two different types of speaker wire terminals spring clips and binding posts see illustration below.
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At the speaker end they will separate and at your receiver or amplifier end they will typically be joined together.
Some manufacturers use modular connectors on to which you can screw any of these connectors.
Bi wire braided speaker cable diy these are instructions on how to make your own bi wire speaker jumper wire cables.
Diy audio wiring.
Spring clips are very easy to work with.
Another cable so that the signals for the tweeter and woofer are sent from the amplifier to the speaker.
How to bi wire your speakers.
One pair which carries the high frequencies tweeters and the other will carry low frequencies woofer from the amp.
Each cable has a banana connector on each end.
By having this set up you are forcing the tweeter currents and the woofer currents to run in separate cables.
The spring loaded mechanism holds the wire in place.
Simply press down on the clip insert the speaker wire and release.
A bi amp setup is where two independent amplifiers are used to drive one speaker.
I am using these diy low inductance speaker cables with my diy hi vi 3 way speakers the speaker cables use 16awg strnaded copper wire a total of 4 x 16awg wires for each speaker cable conductor which give an equivalent awg of 10 see american wire gauge.
To bi wire your speakers first remove those jumpers and use two sets of speaker cables.
In most cases bi wiring means using an extra pair of connecting wires i e.
Low inductance diy hi fi speaker cables.
As you can see on the photo to the right these are for a pair of cables with 1 positive line and 1 negative line.
Speaker cables connecting your loudspeakers to your amplifier speaker cables come with spades bananas or pin connectors depending on the inputs on your amps and speakers.
For other termination combinations see my other uploads for more.
Some higher performance amplifiers even have two sets of speaker connections to make it easier to connect things up.
However with bi wiring you will be running two sets of loudspeaker cables from your amplifier to each of your speakers.
