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single ended cable crossed at bi wireable speaker?

Hi! I'm completely new here, and I don't mean to reopen the bi-wiring can of worms. I just have one specific question. Today while researching about bi wiring and assessing whether I should re terminate my AQ Rockefellers, I came across an arrangement I had never seen before. Its on the last part of this pdf:

www2.audioquest.com/wp-content/.../02/UndrstndgBiWr.pdf

basically you use your speaker single ended wire as you'd usually do at the amp end but you plug the red terminal to the HF and the black end to the LF at the speaker end. Leave the jumper plates on. I tried this on my system today. The bass became less forceful without loosing definition or extension. I gained much more air in the tweeter and more presence and clarity in the mids. The soudstage became initially too wide and slightly confused but now I've gotten used to it and it seems more spacious.

Has anyone experimented with this arrangement? how about the opposite at the speaker end? additionally, has anyone tried the audioquest bi wireable speaker cable? I'm slightly worried that on the website it claims that the geometry favors punch on the LF speaker end without "ultimate resolution" which is something I don't necessarily want for the bass.

(I kind of miss the punch of the bass with the previous arrangement but the hi hat and ride cymbal now flies high in my room :) compromises, you know.

cheers!
audiopanda
audiopanda OP
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Stringreen, yes, that makes sense. I initially thought of doing that but the AQ cable is really thick and el wifo might not be very happy with more cable mess in the living room. Are you currently biwiring? are both (HF & LF) cables the same brand/model?

Stanwal, I agree that it makes a difference. Whether which way sounds better I guess would be highly system dependent. What brand of jumpers are you using? are your speaker cables solid silver too? ($$) a lot of users claim that the jumpers should be the same material or even geometry as the speaker cable.
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stanwal
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I use Cardas GR speaker wire; a double run would be expensive and cumbersome. I formerly used Cardas jumpers; currently using bare solid silver wire I got from either Homegrown Audio or Chris Van [drawing a blank]. I actually do have some solid silver VDH cables but they are 1 meter in length. not long enoung to use with a non mono-block amp. My speakers are not wired internally with Cardas except for one set of S 100s; it may be ideally better to have one wire throughout but my set up sounds good to me now. I may try some Cardas Clear if it is available in raw cable form; most jumpers strike me as overpriced and I would rather have them un- terminated anyway. The solid silver wire does a good job and was about $60 a foot; which gives 4 3" lengths. My Spendor S 100s came with a length of bare wire for jumpers; the GamuTs came without any.
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marakanetz
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I use unterminated VDH unterminated bulk speaker wire on on all speaker terminals in bi-wire set up. If I would go single-wire I would definitely strip it more and connect it through both binding posts using NO jumpers at all. One pure wire may be better than outstanding silver or whatever jumpers.
douglas_schroeder
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Stringreen, I believe the effect you are hearing is the splitting of conductors into two groupings rather than all dedicated for one set of inputs. IOW, total gauge matters significantly.

Want to have some fun? On a speaker with a single set of posts double up the cables. Yes, use two complete sets. Just make sure you have all connections absolutely parallel! You will be shocked at the difference in sound that additional total gauge makes.

There are some interesting tricks one can do with jumpers and cables, however I believe double cable bi-wiring (using two complete sets per single set of binding posts) would best them all.
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wig
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Guys,

I've done the cable doubling and I'll say I will not be going back to single cables...
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