Topic: Shotgun vs. BiWire?

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

Anyone tried a comparison between these two configurations?

Currently I have a shotgun run with tara labs cable to the bass module and MIT750+II to the monitors.  I want to upgrade with common sourced wire between the two cabinets.

I'm leaning toward a shotgun configuration because that will still work for me if I bi-amp at some point.  Also most of the bi-wires I see on agon have short tails and that won't work with my speakers.  But for the same money as shotgun singles I can get another step up of the bi-wire. 

Any thoughts?

[BCostigan]

What's a shotgun configuration?    

[macdaddy]

What's a shotgun configuration?    

+t for asking.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

Shotgun is two completely parallel sets of wire instead of a split tail for biwire or both conductor runs sharing a single sleave.

[Daryan]

What's the point at curiosity?  RFI/EMI I would guess?

[BobW]

What's the point at curiosity?  RFI/EMI I would guess?

Somehow, I can't help but think that twin runs would add reactance and also possibilty of EMI.
Am I looking at this wrong somehow ?

[ducati]

The only experience I had was running Kimber 4TC shotgun to my old B&Ws.  I replaced them with MIT MH750+ S3 Biwire which were much better...  I now have MH750 Shotgun and they are a little better, but not much.

Not a real statistically significant sample, I know 

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

The only experience I had was running Kimber 4TC shotgun to my old B&Ws.  I replaced them with MIT MH750+ S3 Biwire which were much better...  I now have MH750 Shotgun and they are a little better, but not much.

Not a real statistically significant sample, I know 

I've thought about just upgrading to the newer MIT bi-wires but I don't know what I'm going to do.  Based on a survey of prices, I can get a better set of bi-wires for the same money I'd pay for two runs of lesser wire.  But I would then have to get another pair of wire if I biamp - or not bi-amp. 

I need to just stay the fuck away from audiogon.

[ducati]

hehe true dat.  A'gon makes me sin...  repeatedly.

I've decided (for now) I'm not going to biamp.  Eventually when we get a bigger place I'm going to move to beefy tube monos...  I think.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

That was my thought.  I've got a target price for a pair of Premier 12s.   I see them come at that price about every 10 months (there are two pair in that range on agon right now but I already got speakers so no new toys for a while).  I was thinking of using the 12s for the bass and the Premier 11 for the monitors.  Then eventually going multi-channel with the 11 driving the rears and the 12s driving the fronts.   That day might not come for a very long time but it still has me thinking about my wire purchase today.

[ducati]

Oh, man, an all-tubed HT would rock.  I have been trying to figure out how to do this--my centre channel sounds like azz compared to my L/R, and part of it is because I power it with my Denon HT Receiver. 

Definitely smart to plan--cable is so damn expensive I don't like to buy it more than once!   

[macdaddy]

I need to just stay the fuck away from audiogon.

qft.