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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.

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milkdudd
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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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rocray
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I found this thread,and I always found this idea of doubling cables,either speaker or RCA intriguing. I just swapped out a pair of Analysis Plus Oval 9’s out of my secondary system. I’m running the same cable in my listening room. So,why not experiment.  Luckily,one set are spades,the other bananas,so this made this even easier.  
 

   The first thing I noticed,is a little more weight in the music.  I haven’t decided if it is better,but it’s definitely a difference.  I’ll let these stay in place for a while,and see what transpires. 

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wakajawaka
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Probably a dumb question, but here goes: 

I have speakers w/ one set of binding posts...8AWG cable w/ spades at both ends are currently connected to each mono block. Can another set of cables w/ banana ends be plugged into the same amp and speaker binding posts to achieve the increased AWG benefit discussed here?

rshad0000
269 posts
 

Yes, shouldn’t be an issue.  
 

By the way I have two sets of Wireworld Eclipse 8s speaker cables on my system and I noticed more weight and authority to the music once I added the second pair.

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