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Originally Posted by FreddieFerric
Never owned a Wilson speaker. Didn't realize they're not bi-wire/amp capable.
Hmm... 
Scratch Wilson from the list. |
That's perfectly ok. You pay your money and you make your choice.
To clarify, Wilson speakers are not and never will be bi-wireable. Every aspect of the designs are aimed toward extremely precise and adjustable time alignment based on listening distance and ear height. While adding passive bi-amp/bi-wiring might yield a pleasant tonal balance, it can/will destroy what David Wilson spent his entire career developing - the ability to precisely control signal time arrival at the listener down to the low microsecond range. For us, that loss is far, far, far greater than anything that might be gained by a passive bi-amp.
In fact, with the Chronosonic XVX (subject of the thread) Wilson measures group delay and calculates offsets for individual amplifiers. This allows an even more precise time alignment for an individual system.