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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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ozzy
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There are as you know 2 ways to go on this.

Myself, I would go for one brand for the top and bottom. I also switch them periodically so each cable is breaking in fully.

But, I can see the other view on this, optimizing the benefits of each cable strong points for the frequenecy extremes that they will be seeing.

But, I still think in the end, your speakers were made as a set and a set of wires of the same type should be used through out.
Otherwise, there may be a large gap in quality when one cable passes off to the other.

Just one mans opinion.
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