I am doing the latter and it seems to work well. It was a matter of termination at the amp end. I cut down a 10' set of standard speaker wire to make the 5' set of Bi-wire. It just worked out better that way for me with this wire and It sounds fine. The performance may very dependant on the design of the cable and it's electrical field properties, due to geometry and dialectric properties. I am using an exotic German import called Audioplan which most people have never heard of. So far so good.
Bi-Wiring using 2 sets of cables; have a question.
I have two sets of Cardas Golden Cross cables and my speakers allow bi-wiring. My question, is it better to run the cables in the traditional positive and negative leg in the same cable and run the two cables parallel to the speakers? Or should I let one set handle the positive leg and the other set handle the negative leg of the signal, thus physically isolating the positive and negative runs of the signal?
Your thoughts???
Your thoughts???