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How to run speaker wires...

This is probably more of a cabling question then it is a speaker question but is there a preferred/optimal way to run your speaker cables? What I mean is if you have say a dual voice coil speaker which would require 4 cables coming from the amp(provided you wire it parallel) would it be best to run both the positives side by side in a bundle and then do the same for the negative side, or would it be better to run the pairs each with 1 positive and 1 negative per bundle? Also on top of that, should you twist the pairs so as to create electromagnetic shielding the same way UTP Cat 5 computer cables are ran? Let me know your thoughts on this, thanks!
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gregm
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Parallel conductors create capacitance -- albeit, tiny if reasonably far from one another (say ¬2"). Twisting solves that, creating slight inductance... You can even combine: cross pairs of equidistant conductors.
I have preferred the parallel method on low power signals, and crossed on speakers. Try, carefully.
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