which Alpha Core MI2 is the one to buy?

Ditto Ligi - the MI 2's are the best I've had, perfect explanation by Sean.

What's the best way to bi-wire speakers with the Alpha Core MI 2's or 3's:

- two seperate runs -- one to top posts / one to bottom posts
- two parallel runs to top or bottom / jumper from there
- shotgun Veracity
- shotgun Serpent
- others?

I guess, as a general rule of thumb, copper cables are better with solid-state front ends and silver cables with tube front ends.
Is that correct?

My experience with biwiring any speaker is that the biggest benefits come from two separate runs of wire i.e. one set of cables to the top and one to the bottom. This is NOT the same as using cables that are internally bi-wired.

Using Goertz in a bi-wired arrangement with just the one cable would simply allow you to bypass the "jumper". This in itself might be an improvement for several different reasons. Two of them would be the lack of skin effect with the other being the fact that the two frequency ranges would be transferred from amp to speaker at the same rate of propogation ( speed ). Different cable designs, geometries, types of dielectric used, different lengths, etc... can all alter how fast the signal gets from point A to point B. Using the same cable for both frequency ranges can only miminize the potential for problems.

As to shotgunning Goertz cables, that would completely negate the "special" features of this design. I can think of better ways to waste my money. Others may have different ideas or points of view : ) Sean
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What is "Shotgun" concerning wires?

Thanks!

I guess I'm just really confused about this.

All I know is my speakers have two sets of binding posts.
I'm sure it is a "true" bi-post design as the specs for the speakers say 4 Ohms for the bottom and 8 Ohms for the top.
The manual that came with the speakers said that bi-wiring was highly recommended.

Then, I go to the Alpha-Core site and see you can purchase bi-wired cables.
But are they really bi-wired?
I dunno.

Then I call up the speaker factory and they are talking about using a jumper (copper wire not gold plated bar) so that I am minimizing any time smear (phase shift) by having the entire signal runnning down the same wires.
He talks about running the cables to the top and jumping down from there and vice versa to see what sounds better.

But then he talks about bi-wiring in the next breath.
So I don't know if he's talking about shotgunning or what?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!