alternate method of bi-wiring

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 actually called double bi-wire when you use two pairs of cables. Shotgun is where you use double cables to non-biwire speakers. Whatever; it should usually work well because you have a higher total gauge for each driver.

No Maxgain. Get the Shotgun!!! The Bi-Barrel variety.

For Japanese gear the correct term must be "Shogun".???

Viggen, My comment to you about not bi-wiring is better comes from earlier posts by others. Unless you tried a double run of the cable you are using for a single, against the jumpers, I am not surprised you may find the jumpers better. Probably in all cases, the stock jumper should be trashed in favor of what you are doing.

A cheaper (or different) bi-wire cable will not always perform as well as a better single cable, for the reason the single cable is just better, not because of bi-wiring.

I guess you would need a double run or a bi-wire version of the same cables to do a good comparison. B&W actually recommends bi-wiring with their speakers.

Viggen, I have a pair of double run (biwire) pair of AQ Slate (not currently using). They worked very well. I am currently using a single bi-wire pair of Blue Circle BC92. Even though a single cable, the BC92 is 10 AWG per termination at the speaker end, so almost like a double pair of other brands.

You can also affect the center focus with speaker placement, if the cables sound great otherwise. My speakers are slightly toe'd in.

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.