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Biwire with different cables?

Spoke with an Audioquest factory guy today and he suggested I biwire my Vandy 2Cs using the same wire for hooking up both high and low ends. I got to thinking that to help correct a slightly muddy bottom, I might try using a silver cable there and copper on the tweeter/mid posts. Any problem doing this or experiences? Suggestions on low cost cables? I use biwired Anticables now.
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soundbit OP
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Thank you Stan and Almarg. I have since read that Richard Vandersteen recommends use of the same wire for biwiring. Maybe he's on to something. Maybe I could try Clear Day shotguns.
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stringreen
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It might be a bit different but it isn't going to get better..maybe worse. Anti-Cables are very, very good.
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stanwal
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Or very, very bad; depending on taste and system. The magnet wire I mentioned is available for about 60 cents a foot so experimenting with it is cheap. There are two schools on using the same wire, one holds that you can optimize the wire for the task at hand, heavy wire for the bass and thin for the upper frequencies. The other is to use the same wire for both. I would probably do the latter out of an unwillingness to spend time experimenting except that I don't want to spend the money right now duplicating my Cardas Gold Reference . Even Cardas doesn't use the same thickness of cable for jumpers as it is. So I am using double runs of OCOS for high end. I was EXTREMELY reluctant to spend big money for long cables so I tried several cheaper alternatives including anti-cable. None was satisfactory IN MY SYSTEM. EVERYTHING you can conceive of has been recommended one time or another by someone. One web reviewer uses romex and insists it is better than any exotic cable. So I would try inexpensive alternatives or ones that can be returned first and see what YOUR impressions are.
mordante
511 posts
 
I think it is better to have use good quality speaker cable, and use then good quality jumper cables. Biwire might work when you bi-amp. But if you only use 1 stereo or 2 mono amps I don't see how biwire could have any effect.

I'm highly sceptical of biwire.
plelko
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Actually, bi-wiring with a low impedance cable can improve the damping factor of your amp and deliver more current to the woofers in a 3-way system. The lower the impedance the more benefit you get, so using factors other than impedance may not net you an improvement as stated in some of the responses you've received prior.

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Olufemi Sonuga
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Dynamic Design Corp.
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