Rear speaker cable question?

Soopafly49

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Currently have the B & W 686 with chord carnival silver screen which is not quite long enough (long story), hooked up to denon 2310. I have my fronts 684's Bi amped at the moment but in the future will be plugged into to a seperate power amp. This will mean more channels free in the denon. I have not come across any modes which suggest I can but would I be able to bi amp the rears once these channels are free. Is this only possible with another amp? I ask because when I order silversreen bi wire I need two lenghts of ten metres which is going to be about 250 pounds and want to know whether I should wait and purchase a 4 to 4 combination of bananna plugs when I have the channels or if it wont be possible just get the a 2 to 4 and bi wire it now. Hope this makes sense.
 

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Do I understand you correctly? Spend £250 to bi amp a pair of £299 rear speakers? That would be up there with polishing your hifi with car wax.
 

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It's not so much about having unused channels of amplification so much as being able to assign those unused channels for bi-amp duties.

AFAIK, there aren't any receivers out there with the ability to bi-amp surround channels.
 

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hammill said:
Do I understand you correctly? Spend £250 to bi amp a pair of £299 rear speakers? That would be up there with polishing your hifi with car wax.
No matter how much the speakers cost I am still going to need 10 metres of speaker cable which wasn't ever going to be cheap. besides the speaker can always be upgraded.
 

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Big Chris said:
It's not so much about having unused channels of amplification so much as being able to assign those unused channels for bi-amp duties.

AFAIK, there aren't any receivers out there with the ability to bi-amp surround channels.
Thanks. shant bother waiting then if wont be able to do it. Just bi wire then.
 

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Relative price has already been raised. You could just buy thicker single wire generic cable and save yourself a fortune, whilst still having cable which will withstand upgrades.
 

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BenLaw said:
Relative price has already been raised. You could just buy thicker single wire generic cable and save yourself a fortune, whilst still having cable which will withstand upgrades.
Thicker? i though the single run or carnival silverscreen was thick enough. After hearing the improvements biwire made to my centre I am inclined to do the same. besides I would like to keep all my cables matching.
 

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The sheath is very thick on the chord but the wire itself isn't particularly. I say thicker because essentially that's all you're getting by biwiring. Anyway, just putting in a further word of caution re cost but hope you enjoy :)
 

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BenLaw said:
The sheath is very thick on the chord but the wire itself isn't particularly. I say thicker because essentially that's all you're getting by biwiring. Anyway, just putting in a further word of caution re cost but hope you enjoy :)
Suggestions for cable?
 
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I have bi amped front speakers and single centre in carnival silver and it is more of a feature of the system than just a cable the rears are wired in qed Which is under the carpet.

Cables are worth doing once especially if it means pulling the house about.
 

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