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Bi wiring advice

Hello,

I've just purchased a set of Spendor S5e speakers (my system consists of AE, Benchmark DAC1, VTL 2.5 & Bryston 3BST). I am currently bi wiring them with 2 different sets of cables, Transparent musicwave (hi frequency) and Audioquest Crystals (low frequency). The catch is that my Crystals have bi wire speaker terminals (one of which is missing). So what I've done is hook up only one of the Crystal's +ve and -ve terminals to the speaker.

Here is my question, if this is a reasonable set-up, what should I do with the terminals that are not hooked up?
Or is it worth while having the missing terminal replaced and hook up all of my Crystal's terminals?
Or is it unadvisable to use two different type of cables in a bi wire hook up?

Your comments would be greatly appreciated.
pjboud

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pjboud OP
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I've repaired my AQ's missing spade lug. But since my AQ is a single bi-wire set (apparently I lose the benefit of magnetically isolating the condoctors) I'm running both of the AQ's +ve lugs to the speaker's +ve LF post and both -ve lugs to -ve LF post. With my Transparent musicwave hooked up to the HF speaker posts, I effectivily end up with 2 seperate run bi-wiring.

I tried using only the AQ's as a bi-wire set up, but find the Misicwave / AQ combo sound better.
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