Speaker Cable Matching.

Please, a little help with this one. Is mixing cables OK for LF and HF's? I will need to purchase this week as I would like this setup broken in and running by the 21st when my stepdaughter arrives for a visit. Thanks.

My experiences suggest that when bi-amping or bi-wiring, you will get the most coherent result if you stick to the same cable, same cable length and same connectors. Notwithstanding this you may be wishing to deliberately alter the relative characteristics of your speaker by using different cables - but that is up to you. I may have missed some of your quest Dekay, but are you using identical amps? If not, then different speaker cable will be a minor matter. If you are using identical amps then I believe the best sound would come from putting the amps right by the speakers and using very short links - but I suppose you must have already eliminated this previously.

RedKiwi: The amps are a Musical Fidelity X-A1 intergrated and a Musical Fidelity AS-100 X series power amp. I cannot place the equipment near the speakers for the time being, but would like to remedy this in the future (hopefully next summer if things go well). It is hard to second guess since the power amp does not arrive until Friday, but I am hoping that the fuller bass will round out the Kimber sound for me. I have not experimented with speaker cable other than the Kimber 4VS and some Transparent Wave stuff (that was a little too muffled for me).

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the 4VS - just the 4TC and 8TC, which bleach harmonics throughtout the spectrum a little, and have a smooth sheen which tends slightly to a glare in the mid to upper midrange. Having said that they are great value for money if it is a reasonably synergistic match. The local dealer here told me they found that for long runs they preferred 4TC over any of the other Kimber cables (up to and including 8TC that is), even for bi-wire speakers, and in fact that is how they wire all of their sound rooms - with long lengths of 4TC and short interconnects - and they get pretty good sound, I must admit. They found that the 8TC only sounded better in long runs when the amplifier was about Plinius SA100 or better. I think 4TC goes for around USD4-5, so that means 18m*4runs*$5, or about USD360. Of course, you could start with just two runs and see how it goes with the 4VS. Given the geometry is similar, this is likely to be better than mixing with the Audioquest cables. I do not recommend the Audioquest cables you refer to and find them quite disappointing value and a dirtier, more distorted sound than the 4TC.