Possibly dumb question: can I use two cable runs for each channel, not bi-wired?

I am told by Ron Hedrich of Marigo Labs, legendary (in some circles) designer and engineer of cables and resonance/vibration control thingies, that it works, but make sure it's the same exact constructed cable. Also as stated by others, spade banana at each end. Which sounds like what you are wanting to do. Marigo also said it would make for better sonics to use biwire cable. With wire running cable length, not just attached at the speaker end. Hope this helps.

True bi-amping of speakers from different amps to different drivers, ie woofers and mains, would show a doubling of resistance when adding them together, which is not the case, because they are still the same to each set of drivers. Bi-wiring accomplishes nothing. That means that no improvements or degradations will be heard,k unless, of course, the wires were too small or too resistive to begin with. Simply doubling wires to the same terminals does not double the impedance. It halves it. However, since he mentioned he was using shorter wires, for example say to half the original length, the impedance would be the same as before, and for other lengths, easy calculable with simple multiplication and division skills.

Simply doubling wires to the same terminals does not double the impedance. It halves it. However, since he mentioned he was using shorter wires, for example say to half the original length, the impedance would be the same as before.

Dan, I’m not sure I follow the last quoted sentence. Cutting the length in half would cut the resistance, inductance, and capacitance in half. If the wires are then doubled to the same terminals (i.e., paralleled) that would cut the resistance and inductance in half again, to 1/4 of the value of the original single run that was twice as long, while doubling the capacitance to the original value.

Regards,
-- Al

I've been a member of Audiogon for many years, but don't usually follow the forums. Recently they started sending me weekly updates on " Top new discussions ".

Maybe you all know, or the OPs system is posted somewhere, I looked, couldn't find it.
I'm surprised nobody asked what cables they are and what speakers. Depending on the cables this would be simple to give a reasonably definitive answer.
So, if this topic is still active, could you answer those questions?

Hello there,

I did try bi-wiring my speakers with a combination of different cable brands (VdH C122 with bananas and Kimber Cable 8TC with spades)
While the Kimbers worked fine by themselves and were my main cables for almost 4 years, the addition of the VdH´s gave the mix a bit more body and calm.   There is certainly a sonic effect by bi-wiring. It all comes down to your system and personal taste I believe.  Trying cost nothing and can be lots of fun! Enjoy