What's your thoughts on this subject as there seems a lot for and against bi-Wiring, There seemed to be more for spending the same money on better cables. After the turntable up grade the next up grade will be a pair GS speaker cables.

From my experience, having experimented with this, your shop is offering very good advice.

Then came John C and Leo suggesting I use links made from the same cable, and I turned round at them and said the B-word, complete with exclamation marks!!!

I had found absolutely no difference whatever I used: gold plated solid links, tri-rated wire, mains wiring wire, all the multi-stranded stuff, just about anything that would conduct.

So, I said, "go on then, but there won't be any difference at all", repeating that it was all a load of (B-word again) for such a short few inches of connecting wire. I mean, I thought they were taking the (P-word).

So they connected the two sets of terminals on the back of my LS3/5a's using offcuts of the Spatia internal cores, which they incidentally had marked the direction (more B-word I thought).

I played a few different tracks and turned round at them and said (the F-word) off! Why? Because they were right.

It would be like taking a length of Spatia cable, cutting a small section off the end, turning it the other way, soldering it on and then expecting it to sound identical to the original.

What you found Graham was interesting, do you think that any speaker cable for bridging will do or does it have to be the same cable your using to connect your speakers from the amp? 

To be honest I wouldn't know. It just happened this way using the Spatia, and that's how it's stayed ever since.

Jon, I would agree with discrete badger's reply and your dealer on this. I once bi-wired a pair of KEF floorstanders I used to own. The result was spectacularly awful, as if out of phase. At first I thought I must have made a lash-up of the connections, but I hadn't. I soon returned them to single wiring.

My present speakers have no facility to bi-wire. I don't know if others would agree, but it's my impression from reading reviews that fewer speakers offer the facility to do so these days.

Some could even blow 

To be honest I wouldn't know. It just happened this way using the Spatia, and that's how it's stayed ever since.

I was going to try it out as I thought I had my old cables but I haven't.

I was talking to mate last night on this subject. He found Bi-Wiring works with his new speakers but had tried it out on the old ones and he said it made no difference, he also said he had used the same cable to bridge his old speakers and the results were vary good.

Agreed. And, notably, all of the best speakers that I have heard here have only offered a single pair of connectors. Bi-wiring was only possible on a few models at the (shall we say?) more value-orientated end of the market.

The LS50, as discussed elsewhere, is a good case-in-point. IMO it is in a different class to many "value-orientated" speakers I have heard in the past. It is not bi-wirable. No amount of bi-wiring (or even bi-amping) on less well-designed speakers is going to get equally good results, but bi-amping is likely to be more expensive.

Thanks Graham. I need 7 metres to reach my speakers due to the way the room is laid out, so doubling up probably wasn't helpful.

So the differences are down to the impedance/capacitance/inductance changes. With my kit LS3/5a a few years ago, I connected them conventional. Then I unscrewed the backs and connected both drivers to the same binding posts. With my more recent 12PW/7P combo several months ago, I bi-wired with the same cable type and length. When I pair the 11MS and CHR-120, I will bi-amp with two pairs of Proprius so that I can alter their levels independently without resistors and so the inductive effects of one coil don't affect the other coil. Can then double-DAC if I want to do digital filters.