confussed on bi-wiring

Posted by: oakey on 09 October 2003

hi all
im new to the group and have been browsing through the bi-wiring parts but now im really cofussed,ive just bought a nac112 and nap150 to go with my cd5 and flatcap2 but i have monitor audio silver s6 speakers they sound good bi-wired to my rega mira amp which i have at the moment but when i get my naim kit what would the best thing to do be not bi-wire or bi-wire would it effect the amp seriously if i did,the cable i have is ecosse es2.3/cs2.15 biwire, thanks for any advice kev

Posted on: 09 October 2003 by Paul Ranson

Your best bet would be to single wire with NACA5. At least initially.

Paul

Posted on: 09 October 2003 by i am simon 2

Oaky

The best advice would be to say single wire with NAC A5, the naim audiuo speaker cable, this way the amps will be their happiest.

A5 is not too expensive at £6 a meter and as you would only be single wiring you do not nee to by twice as much of the stuff. I found it to be a real improvment over the QED cable I used previously.

Naim do not advocate bi-wiring, but lots of people report that they have not had any problems doing so.

If you look on ebay, you can ofen find lengths of A5 for quite cheap, so that might be a good start if funds are tight.

Regards

Simon

Posted on: 09 October 2003 by Geoff P

Oaky

Just a couple of small extra comments

If you do go for NACA5, I know it sounds extravagant if you don't really need it but, the recommended minimum length of each piece speaker cable is 3 meters.

I am sure it is not absolute necessary with the 112/150 which is new generation and much less sensitive to the capacitance of the speaker cables but the 3 meter rule is supposed to give a better sound.

The other recommendation I have had a few times is once you have put the bridging connectors in to join the two sets of speaker terminals together, plug the single wired NACA5 speaker cables into the High frequency terminals rather than the bass midrange terminals. Again this is supposed to be best for the sound, not a must do.

regards
GEOFFP