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Combining different speaker cables for bi-wiring?

After spending the past few weeks trying different types of speaker cables with my system, I narrow down my choice to two brands of cables but I couldn’t choose on more than another.
The first cable I liked was giving all the details and dynamics I was looking for the highs and mids, but was lacking punch and solidity for the bass.
The second one I picked was giving me all the punch and fullness in the lows, but was too bright in the high frequencies.
Should I bi-wire my speakers using the first type of cable to drive the highs and the second type of cable to drive the lows?
Is that a common thing to do?
Would that affect timing and pacing between treble and bass?
Thanks for helping.
Cheers,
mboimare

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clio09
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I recently had a bi-wire set-up with a pair of CRL/FIM cables on the bottom and a pair of Virtual Dynamics Master 2.0 cables on the top. While to me the sound was fine, it wasn't what I was quite expecting from bi-wiring. The sonics of each cable were clearly audible and as Davemitchell points out the set-up was somewhat non-coherent.

In the end I'm looking for a one brand solution to try out. However if I had my druthers I would bi-amp, with a tube amp for the top end and a solid state for the low end. I think bi-amping is a better solution than bi-wiring.
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