Audioquest speaker cables

I would not use a Audioquest bi-wire speaker cable.  Their cables are excellent design, but they are normally just 13awg or close to 12awg cables.  When you do the bi-wire option, you are just splitting that into a 14.5awg + 15.5awg cable. 

I would recommend using a non bi-wire cable and connecting it to the top (tweeter) binding posts.  If you don't like the jumper block between the binding posts, then get a high quality jumper cable.  You lose current capability if you bi-wire an Audioquest speaker cable.

There are other speaker cables which are fine bi-wire.  These are cables that are 8awg to 10awg to start with.

tomic604 stated this:

Yes the AQ can and should be two sets of cables, so no concern about awg.

I believe he is recommending using two sets of speaker cable for speakers that have 4 binding posts.  You can definitely connect multiple speaker wires to the amp side.  Either you double-stack two spades or you use one spade and one banana.  On the speaker side, one "normal" speaker cable is attached to the top binding posts and one for the bottom.  You are still buying two sets of speaker cable.

So they use a different AWG with the bi-wire option?  The William Tell zero is 13 awg.

Most Audioquest speaker wire are comprised of 4 wires for RED+ and 4 wires for BLACK- (the low end products such as Rocket 33 use 3 wires or 2 wires for each RED/BLACK).  When they do the bi-wire on a speaker cable, they just take 2 wires for each banana/spade connection.  The core 13awg speaker wire is the same.  You just are splitting the speaker wire "in half" for bi-wire option. 

If Audioquest really doubled up on the bi-wire option, the price of the "bi-wire" version would be over TWICE the price of the normal version.