Bi-amping with Audioquest cables


Owners of Audioquest hyperlitz cables will know that these cables are made up of multi-strand wires, which are individually insulated. This makes the job of bi-wiring more effective and quite straight-forward. In spite of this, Audioquest have told me that they should not be used for bi-amping (ie two pairs of bass and treble wires at both speaker and Amp ends,)but instead, I should use TWO pairs of cables. Nevertheless, before I was advised of this, I had in fact configured a single pair of their Indigo cables into a a bi-amp set up and still use them like this to this day with good effect. I have now managed to pick up a pair of their Moonlight cables which are currently single wired and am considering re-wiring them the same as the Indigo's. Does anyone know why I shouldn't be doing this? Could this cause problems with Impedence?(I have emailed Audioquest but to date not had a reply).
lt346mp

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Thanks for the replies. Yes, I'm sure that in an ideal World two cables would be best but considering the cost of some of these cables,this can be prohibitive, so I'll continue as I am.
Thanks for the reply Unclejeff. Are there any other 'goners out there bi-amping with a single pair of cables?
Moving swiftly on - has anyone made any sonic evaluations between using an internally bi-wired cable as oppossed to a true bi-wired set-up, using two of the same kind of cables? I've read other threads where folk have bi-wired using the Midnight cables paired with the more expensive Sterling cables, but none where the same cables has been used for both treble and bass. I am curious as to whether the folk using the Midnight/Sterling combination would reap more rewards by doing away with the cheaper Midnights and simply bi-wiring 'internally' with the superior Sterlings. Anybody got any thoughts?