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Doubling a Set of Speaker Cables

While reading a "professional "review of the Daedalus Audio Ulysses Floorstanding Speaker, the reviewer is adamant about the improvement TWO sets of speaker cables connected to each speaker - regardless of the brand - makes.

This is something that crossed my mind long ago, prior to reading it now, but I’ve never realistically considered trying it nor have I ever come across this in a review. At face-value it seems to me this technique would do more harm than good. I’m wondering if there are any folks on the forum using this technique of two sets of cables (and as mentioned in the article this is irrespective of bi-amping or merely using a smaller gauge) and if so, can/do you vouch for any "improvement" one should expect.

Thanks.

http://www.dagogo.com/daedalus-audio-ulysses-floorstanding-speaker-and-bass-optimization-woofer-bow-...
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thyname
3,107 posts
 
@milkdudd : exactly my findings and my experience over many years!

I also use one amp (two speaker taps, A and B, but can also bridge the single tap) using two speaker wire runs, one to HF and one to LF ports in my speakers. I will never go back to jumpers + single run speaker wire.
swllz
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It's the total combined gauge that counts.
budburma
345 posts
 
I use a double 8 foot run of Duelund 16g for a total of about 13ga and have been very happy with them. More extension and tonally denser/saturated within the images to my ear than the single run. Trying some other pricier cables now, but haven't found anything to displace them in my system yet. To be fair, I've tuned my system (yes, tuned) with them in place, so matching and/or improving on that becomes more of a challenge I imagine.

If that's the case after the next two, I'll likely give a single 12ga run a go (they make a nice tidy 2-in-1 run) for the fun of it and try to remember to report back.

FWIW, I used splitter and the Schroeder method with various sets of IC's and loved it for a while, but eventually the portrayal was overly saturated and off-putting with smeared tone and timbre sounding less crisp and accurate. So, maybe something doubled, something troubled - not being wed to any of it and remaining curious.....open ears, open mind. Open heart? "Free your ass and your mind will follow" (Funk Philosophy 101)
milkdudd
64 posts
 
Within the next week I will be able to try another speaker cable configuration. As I stated above my cables are Clear Day solid silver, called double shotgun cables. Up till now all of my 6-ft cables are identical. I have purchased here on audiogon what is apparently a one-of-a-kind set of cables the owner of the company built for himself. Long story short it will have 50% more strands of wire as the cables I'm using now but otherwise be identical. I plan to try running one these to my low frequency terminals and continue using what I'm currently using on the high frequency terminals. I think it's 50-50 whether it will be a noticeable improvement but it's fun to experiment
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