Hi all,
I read this forum extensively and I have learn a lot about hi-fi and Martin Logan, perhaps I should post more often but I'm not that good with words. Anyway here is my experience with bi-wiring my Ascent which I hope will help others here make their Logans sings. A year ago I change my CD player ahnd about the same time I have replace my speakers cable (MIT-4 bi-wire) for a single pair of wires with locking banana just because sometimes I have to push the connectors of My MIT at the back of my power amps because it was a little loose fitting. Before all these changes my system was very musical. As time passes I realize that now when I was listening to my system I kept decreasing the volume because the sound was a little harch and irritating as the listening session went on, before it was the other around.
Then my friend sold his speakers (Gershman) to his brother (which live in the Toronto area) for an upgrade. The other week he went visit his brother and they went shopping for the electronics. They stop by this shop and met a very nice man (Peter at Audio Excellence Yorkville) and they bought a Musical Fidelity integrated and CD player with all the cables necessary to connect his speaker. Peter says that he needs bi-wiring with these speakers to perform at their best (my friend being a little skeptical). He was right because when they connected the system together back home, my friend says that he had never heard those speakers perform this way, and he had the chance to listen to them with different well known electronics. When he told me that story a flash came to my memory and I said to myself I have to get my MIT cable (still having them) and try them again.
I got home, sat down and listen to my system, then I went to the closet to get my MIT cable and connect them, put the system back on Et Voila my logan were singing again the music was literally floating in the air, no more harsness or auditive fatique. Just to make sure that it was not psychological I call my friend to drop by to have a listen to a couple of good CD,s I bought.
After a minute of listening and looked at me and said something has changed in your system, it souds more musical. AH! It is not psychological, it is for reel. Now I tell him is it the cable or because it is bi-wire. So I head for the speakers and disconnect a pair of connectors and put back the metal jumper leaving the same cable but now it was single wire. The music start playing and within 30 seconds we were back to square one, the Logans were not singing anymore, the harshness was back and the music wasn,t floating in the air anymore. Remove the jumper, connect back the pair of connector and now my Logans are singing again. For me bi-wiring my Ascent really works. Those who have not try bi-wire on their Logans should definitely check this out.
Perhaps Roberto could explain to us the reasons why it makes a difference.
Musicman
I read this forum extensively and I have learn a lot about hi-fi and Martin Logan, perhaps I should post more often but I'm not that good with words. Anyway here is my experience with bi-wiring my Ascent which I hope will help others here make their Logans sings. A year ago I change my CD player ahnd about the same time I have replace my speakers cable (MIT-4 bi-wire) for a single pair of wires with locking banana just because sometimes I have to push the connectors of My MIT at the back of my power amps because it was a little loose fitting. Before all these changes my system was very musical. As time passes I realize that now when I was listening to my system I kept decreasing the volume because the sound was a little harch and irritating as the listening session went on, before it was the other around.
Then my friend sold his speakers (Gershman) to his brother (which live in the Toronto area) for an upgrade. The other week he went visit his brother and they went shopping for the electronics. They stop by this shop and met a very nice man (Peter at Audio Excellence Yorkville) and they bought a Musical Fidelity integrated and CD player with all the cables necessary to connect his speaker. Peter says that he needs bi-wiring with these speakers to perform at their best (my friend being a little skeptical). He was right because when they connected the system together back home, my friend says that he had never heard those speakers perform this way, and he had the chance to listen to them with different well known electronics. When he told me that story a flash came to my memory and I said to myself I have to get my MIT cable (still having them) and try them again.
I got home, sat down and listen to my system, then I went to the closet to get my MIT cable and connect them, put the system back on Et Voila my logan were singing again the music was literally floating in the air, no more harsness or auditive fatique. Just to make sure that it was not psychological I call my friend to drop by to have a listen to a couple of good CD,s I bought.
After a minute of listening and looked at me and said something has changed in your system, it souds more musical. AH! It is not psychological, it is for reel. Now I tell him is it the cable or because it is bi-wire. So I head for the speakers and disconnect a pair of connectors and put back the metal jumper leaving the same cable but now it was single wire. The music start playing and within 30 seconds we were back to square one, the Logans were not singing anymore, the harshness was back and the music wasn,t floating in the air anymore. Remove the jumper, connect back the pair of connector and now my Logans are singing again. For me bi-wiring my Ascent really works. Those who have not try bi-wire on their Logans should definitely check this out.
Perhaps Roberto could explain to us the reasons why it makes a difference.
Musicman