alternate method of bi-wiring

Pm,

In most situations, double bi-wire, using the same cable on HF and LF would be best. You should borrow some cables or buy some with 30day trial offers and experiment for yourself.

Sugar, yup, i moved my speakers closer together by about 6 inches. Before they were about 8 ft apart. I don't have them toed in. I feel this ruins the imaging.

There is not right or wrong answer. It really depends on the speakers which placement is best whether closer or toe'd in, etc; as well as the shape of the room. Everyone needs to figure it out for themselves.

It is amazing how this confusion persists. I checked around and Shotgun is where you run a whole cable for the positive terminal and a whole cable for the negative terminal. This is why you hear of Shotgun on non-biwire speakers. Double biwire is one cable for the highs (plus and minus) and one cable for the lows (plus and minus). To run shotgun biwire you need four cables: One for highs/plus, one for high/negative, one for lows/plus and one for lows/negative.

All speaker manufacturers I checked use this terminalogy except Synergistic Research. The call their standard biwire cable configuration Shotgun. No wonder folks are confused, even some companies don't agree, or don't know what the rest of the industy is using for terminology.

Yes,

I've only learned of shotgunning like 2 weeks ago from this forum. There is a thread on it, rather long and detailed, on the benefits and drawbacks of shotgun configuration.

Oh, if you are double biwiring and using two different cables, I have a tweak that might work so you won't hear the desparity between the better and the worse cable. I never heard of anyone doing this before, so I am proclaiming it my creation, and naming it cross double biwiring.

Like I explained before, I used to double bi-wire, but the weaknesses of the Midnight became very apparent in my system. I wanted to get another Argent, so I can take the weaker cable out of my system. But before I layed down the greens, I rewired the speaker cables.

My amp is designed to double bi-wire; it has two outputs on each side, left and right. I connected one single run of Argent on both the HF and LF positive on the amp side to the speaker HF and LF positive. And I connected the Midnights to both the speaker and amp's HF and LF negative.

This yielded a much balanced and coherent sound. I don't have two Argents to compare, but I doubt it would sound any different.

It wasn't until I got the Virtual Dynamics powercord, did the soundstage became too wide, then I removed to bi-wire and went with full range.