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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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ryder
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Since the high and low frequency drivers are completely different devices, each with its own sonic character, connecting them with different wire is of no concern.

I share the same opinion as with Eldartford. In my system the bass is entirely handled by the subwoofer with my mains producing only the midrange and high frequencies in high-passed configuration. In fact, I have 2 pairs of different interconnects(not speaker wires) that transmit the low frequency signals, a pair from preamp to subwoofer and another from sub to power amp.
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