Biwire with different cables?

When I wrote the preceding post, obviously I overlooked your statement that you are already bi-wiring, with Anti-Cables. Given that, I have no particular suggestions beyond the thought that I would be hesitant to invest in silver cables (or other expensive cables), at least without having return privileges. And I think that Stan has made some suggestions which seem well worth trying.

Regards,
-- Al

Thank you Stan and Almarg. I have since read that Richard Vandersteen recommends use of the same wire for biwiring. Maybe he's on to something. Maybe I could try Clear Day shotguns.

Or very, very bad; depending on taste and system. The magnet wire I mentioned is available for about 60 cents a foot so experimenting with it is cheap. There are two schools on using the same wire, one holds that you can optimize the wire for the task at hand, heavy wire for the bass and thin for the upper frequencies. The other is to use the same wire for both. I would probably do the latter out of an unwillingness to spend time experimenting except that I don't want to spend the money right now duplicating my Cardas Gold Reference . Even Cardas doesn't use the same thickness of cable for jumpers as it is. So I am using double runs of OCOS for high end. I was EXTREMELY reluctant to spend big money for long cables so I tried several cheaper alternatives including anti-cable. None was satisfactory IN MY SYSTEM. EVERYTHING you can conceive of has been recommended one time or another by someone. One web reviewer uses romex and insists it is better than any exotic cable. So I would try inexpensive alternatives or ones that can be returned first and see what YOUR impressions are.

I think it is better to have use good quality speaker cable, and use then good quality jumper cables. Biwire might work when you bi-amp. But if you only use 1 stereo or 2 mono amps I don't see how biwire could have any effect.

I'm highly sceptical of biwire.