It is not rocket science to make a 4" long jumper bar to short together two sets of terminals on the back of a speaker. Just how "expensive" does such a bar have to be? Pure gold perhaps? Plated with silver and platinum? Blessed by the Pope? Maybe 4" long by 3" thick, and pure silver - then blessed by the Pope?

That bar does nothing but join the two sections of the crossover network - the section that feeds the woofer, and the section that feeds the tweeter (or midrange and tweeter combined in a 3 way system). That connection could just as easily be done inside the speaker cabinet and routed to a single + and - terminal set on the back of the cabinet. Before the bi-wiring fad reared it's ugly head, this is exactly how all speakers with passive crossovers were configured. The bar just gives you the "option" of feeding the two crossover sections independently from two amplifiers or one amplifier. Either way, the electrical configuration is identical as far as the crossover network is concerned, and the performance will be identical whether you bi-wire or not.




[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited May 15, 2004).]