Biamping And wire wonder

The wonders of Hifi audioEver wonder what would you do with your current setup, are you satisfy? if not what will you do? well have you ever thought of Biamping your current Speaker? Or maybe strip an old Speaker cable and use a single core out of it and test if it sounds better ?

Well two boring hifi enthusiast did that the last weekend, infact they were so bored with the current system one of them decided to strip an old speaker wire cable and decided to test it in single core mode. Why would a person take so much trouble doing such stupid thing, as he was unwiding the cables, he was mentioning to his workers, "ini orang bodoh punya kerja, tapi kerja ini boleh buat wang" i wonder is that really true, but lets get on, so two crazy and boring person went on a journey and quest to find the perfect tune for the current setup.
What we wanted to do, or Harry wanted to do was to strip his old speaker cable and test it as a single core. He had no comment or idea what would it sound like but i had the impression that the bass wont be that good. Or rather loose that punch in bass. When we hooked it up, then we pop in the usual test discs shown on the first picture, silence we had, we were so surprise by the result. There was Bass, Treble and Mid's, it all sounded so nice and so smooth, no fuzzy feeling the vocal is not clear, bass muddy, or maybe some noise make a person unhappy. Infact it improved the system, Well, we were using the carver and Vincent Sp 330, Preamp was Conrad Johnson Sc 26, we put the Alchemist Audio to rest for the moment, and ran those mention amps all the time.


First up, was Polk audio Monitor series Model RTA 8T, Initially with the previous speaker cable, it was the usual sound that we had used to listen to. But it all changed when the single core untwisted cable was used. The Vocal is very prominant with sweet sounding lips which we usually dont get to listen from the normal speaker cable. With the single core, because of the energy transfer was not interrupted, that is my theory, that is why the it sounds better.
Bass on the other hand, was more than better i expected. I never knew that with only single core it can perform very well. It had punch and speed, most important it cleaned up the messy bass that we used to listen, which we were used to. Togather with the Stone, as the tuning the bass was much cleaner. Surprise to read this, dont be, So How come it sounded better? Probably the cross interference RFI was much less infact none that has reduced the amount of RFI contaminating the Signal during the transfer from Amplifier to the speaker.


The second idea was with single core, and proper contact point was achieve and probably Electrons travel in the same core has more focus energy delivery compare to multi cores. I can describe it as Using Single core, Tightens bass and tones the harshness down. Making music more soothing to the ear, We may be missing some sound, but It does sound good. Then we went on testing with the Polk Audio monitor 10, A very large Vintage kind of speaker. 1 Tweeter, 2 mid range and 1 big woofer, well not the biggest that i have listened, but big enough to make great bass, We had a little bit of a trouble with the staging and bass for the first time, but with Harry's quick thinking we solve it, by placing 2 small speaker stand below it.

After testing we call it a day, and i had dinner with Harry, so we discussed and talked then he had the idea of biamping, we discussed further what we wanted to do, we talked about using electronic cross over to biamp or triamp a system and how it can be done, I never had the idea of how this works but i had to try in order to find out, Then we called it a day and went home.the Next Day

The next day i had to get up early, cause i had a conference in Hotel Crown Plaza in Kl, I went there for half a day and went back after that, had some sleep because the night before A friend came with Boooze, and was drunk the whole night, so it was kind of a hang over for me, i needed the rest,

Went to sleep and at 430 pm I gave Harry a call, Asked him if he was doing the biamping. He said he was setting it up. Then i changed and went there. I was running in my mind how was he biamping his speakers, and how does it sound like, Soon after that i receive a SMS from Him stating > the Pink Triange sound Very Damm nice " It had a very Damm word there, this means it must sound very very good. So i told him hang on, i have some very nice CD that i brought along to test. SO Since our Single core wire had worked yesterday, Harry had spend the Noon twisting and braiding the single core into two, Before that it was messy, not nice, with Biamping, it was worst,
He did a great job,. The setup was basically using 2 power amps, and the speaker must be bi wire able. Harry had place my Beloved Pink Triangle to try first. The Carver amp and the Vincent power amps were used to Biamp the Pink Triangle speaker. Sorry no pictures for the Pink triangle, i forgot to take because it sounded so nice i didnt notice that i had to take pictures, I took some other photos. During the Time we had a guest present also. He is also a Kaki.
This was the ultimate of the Pink Triangle's performance, Because i had never listen to the sound like this before. the bass was even lower and it never suffer from insufficient power supply to the lower frequencies. The High frequency was even cleaner, much much more soothing. Since the days of the Naton Amp by C&B Company, the pink Triangle Ventrical speaker had always suffer in a certain way, when the Frequency went below certain level probably due to the Frequency Response of the Naton Power amp, of the insufficient power of the power amp to cater for High Frequency and Low Freq. But when 2 independent amps, work togatherthe Carver amp was very unique because it had 2 features most power amps dont. It had lever input, and also Line out, or output. RCA. So the connection was from the preamp to the Carver amp and Carver output to the Vincent power amp. It was very convinient. With the Lever control input, we can balance the sound level between the high level to match the low level from the Vincent Power amp. With some tuning done the sound was fantastic. It went down, way down, and the vocal was truly amazing, The speed was not compromise here also, i had my Global Beatz Track 9 tested and it was very Full filling. It was High resolution reproduction as it;s best. With small woofer that goes all the way down to 40Hz it is really amazing.
So there is it,
We had a great time listening to the Pink Triangle Ventrical, we switch to Mission and also Warfadale speakers later, till Harry Close the shop. It was really exiting as i never had done Biamping before. This was the First time, and it is a great sucess. i know, many have dont that before, but since we are experimenting on new ways to enjoy hifi, my as well do it. What the heck at the most it dont sound right,
With the idea of single core and biamping it had change how the system that we used to listen sound like. In many ways it is good, so dont throw or sell your current system yet, maybe on of these tricks can make your system sound different.

The next aim for me and Harry is to create a module speaker system, something like Uncle Vic in Setapak, that one is one system i have listen and will never forget. My respect to uncle Vic;s system.