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Combining different speaker cables for bi-wiring?

After spending the past few weeks trying different types of speaker cables with my system, I narrow down my choice to two brands of cables but I couldn’t choose on more than another.
The first cable I liked was giving all the details and dynamics I was looking for the highs and mids, but was lacking punch and solidity for the bass.
The second one I picked was giving me all the punch and fullness in the lows, but was too bright in the high frequencies.
Should I bi-wire my speakers using the first type of cable to drive the highs and the second type of cable to drive the lows?
Is that a common thing to do?
Would that affect timing and pacing between treble and bass?
Thanks for helping.
Cheers,
mboimare
timrhu
2,778 posts
 
If you prefer the frequency characteristics of the different cables it makes sense to use them where they sound best. Some manufacturers use different wire gauges or materials in their cables meant for internal biwire to take advantage of those characteristics. You found them on your own.
psychicanimal
1,738 posts
 
I'd spend my money on a Marchand electronic x-over...
les3547
22 posts
 
My experience is that chosing one cable for its low-producing cabability and chosing the second cable for its mid/highs can make a huge difference. I've had three sets of biwire speaker cables, upgrading each time. I noticed the improvement over using jumpers, but nothing like when I started wiring for the traits of the two frequency ranges. The best I've achieved thus far is high-end MIT cable for the high/mids and a silver hybrid for the bass. I reasoned that the silver would tighten up my bass, and that's exactly what it did.
lkdog
403 posts
 
Interesting thread.

I bi-wire with DH Labs and use the 14ga T14 on tweeter and the heavier 10ga Q10 on midbass driver on my ACI Jaguar monitors.
This has been recommended by many users in using DH Labs in a bi-wire setup. The wire is the same I believe, though, just different gauges.
I don't see why, in general, there would be a problem using different speaker wire brands unless there is some specific requirement for capacitance or inductance.
ryder
946 posts
 
Since the high and low frequency drivers are completely different devices, each with its own sonic character, connecting them with different wire is of no concern.

I share the same opinion as with Eldartford. In my system the bass is entirely handled by the subwoofer with my mains producing only the midrange and high frequencies in high-passed configuration. In fact, I have 2 pairs of different interconnects(not speaker wires) that transmit the low frequency signals, a pair from preamp to subwoofer and another from sub to power amp.
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