Bi-wireing speakers


I am curious about Bi-wireing. For many years I have been Bi-amping, I recently moved and have no room for my equipment. I have been reading about Bi-wireing on the web and am confused. All the drawing show two sets of cables coming off either side of the Amp, one set going to the low freq. speaker and one set going to the High Freq. speaker. I would think a 300 Watt Amp could blow a tweeter and you would need some kind of crossover unless they are considering and not showing the speakers internal crossover. What would be the advantage of running two sets of cables to the same terminal on a speaker. Being most cables have their own characteristic I would think that can improve the sound if you had a good match.
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@akg_ca , 
Nice post.
OP, as akg said there is a lot of divergent material on bi wiring speakers.
But, if it didn't do anything, why offer it?
Vandersteen believes it to be a significant improvement. And, using 2 separate runs is the best, most complete way to implement bi wiring.
Just because you are using separate cables doesn't mean your 300wpc amp is going to me more capable of blowing out your speakers.
A 300wpc amp is going to blow out your speaker if you either are over driving the speaker(distortion), or clipping the amp(distortion, too).
If you play music at a reasonable level, you probably aren't using more than a few watts. It is the transients that tax an amplifier to reproduce properly, and those extra 290 or so watts give you headroom to produce an undistorted signal.
B
I have been following the thread about the Doug Schroeder technique for interconnects, and I think it parallels this thread.
The use of a second pair of cables seems to not only improve speaker cables, but interconnects, as well.
Why or how, I can't say. But, practice does seem to have merit.
B
I own the GO-4's and they are a considerable upgrade from the Rockefeller's I owned previously. The price wasn't crazy either.
B