What is a "SHOTGUN" speaker cable??

Bamafan has it right in that the term first was used by MIT in the 80's for an upgrade of their Music Hose 750 Speaker Cable.The original cable was already atleast 1.5 inches thick.From what I rembered having owned both the 750 cable and the Shotgun 750 Cable many years ago,they(MIT) ran another set of cables tie wrapped together and at termination had your normal set of speaker spaded termination,But both positive runs were incorporated together and both negative runs incorporated together.This cable at the time cost about 1K IN THE EARLY 80'S AND WAS CONSIDERED EXTEMELY EXPENSIVE back then.My how times have changed.I don't think at the time MIT offered a biwire option to this cable.They would sell jumper cables for biwire speaker applications back then in the 80's
I hope this may clarify what you are asking
Happy Listening
Don

When I look at a shotgun (the kind police carry), I notice they have 1 barrel. I try not to look down it ;)

Rob, thats true! ...I believe thats called a "pump," if you want to see two barrels get pumped, I can point out a few websites for you!?!

So this is probably a stupid question, but this thread has me somewhat confused.

So what's the sonic benefit of running wire from your speaker with 2 connections on amp end and 4 on speaker end, versus running normal cables and using jumpers on your speakers? I'm sure there's a difference, but just curious how much of a difference (i.e. would replacing my Analsysis plus cables and jumpers be worth it, especially since I'm moving to a powerful integrated soon: JRDG concerto, MF TriVista, Accustic Arts Power 1, etc).

Thanks,

Matt

No thanks distortion. I couldn't take the recoil of 2 barrels. I'm getting old LOL