Audioquest speaker cables

So they use a different AWG with the bi-wire option?  The William Tell zero is 13 awg.

Most Audioquest speaker wire are comprised of 4 wires for RED+ and 4 wires for BLACK- (the low end products such as Rocket 33 use 3 wires or 2 wires for each RED/BLACK).  When they do the bi-wire on a speaker cable, they just take 2 wires for each banana/spade connection.  The core 13awg speaker wire is the same.  You just are splitting the speaker wire "in half" for bi-wire option. 

If Audioquest really doubled up on the bi-wire option, the price of the "bi-wire" version would be over TWICE the price of the normal version.

tomic604 stated this:

Yes the AQ can and should be two sets of cables, so no concern about awg.

I believe he is recommending using two sets of speaker cable for speakers that have 4 binding posts.  You can definitely connect multiple speaker wires to the amp side.  Either you double-stack two spades or you use one spade and one banana.  On the speaker side, one "normal" speaker cable is attached to the top binding posts and one for the bottom.  You are still buying two sets of speaker cable.

winning vs learning…. pretty much any AQ wire can be configured in a true external biwire configuration, including a factory shotgun biwire configuration…and yes, they cost 2x.

I don’t recommend an internal biwire configuration, not for AWG reasons, but because it negates MUCH of the advantage of biwiring which is to get the HF wire 3-4” away from the expanding / collapsing field of the LF wire. 

BTW i have a set of now ancient AQ Type 6 in a shotgun biwire configuration that have literally 25 k miles on them…i loan them out so people can experience a true shotgun solid core biwire cable…. i lost count but 7-8 audiogon members have tried them… @bigkidz Peter might comment. Right now they are somewhere in Michigan….

Best to all

jim

both models of AQ you cite are available in  copper or silver. I use a 30” pair of silver in my Reference system, a 7’ shotgun biwire copper set in my other system.