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Just wondering about speaker cables

Had a crazy thought, not an uncommon phenomena these days.Can you use more than one set of speaker cables at a time? Not talking about bi-wiring, I am talking about connecting two cables to the amp and to the speaker using the same post. My thought is if a cable has a certain characteristic that you like (Tight high end) and another cable has something different (More bass response) could you run them together to try and achieve the best of both worlds? Both cables are the same length.
Would this create some kind of feedback loop or overload the amp or speaker?
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ozzy
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I am doing just that.
I have solid pure .9999 silver wire of various gauges that each gauge is in individually oversized teflon tubing and I also have copper foil. Both are connected to one set of amp/speaker terminals.
I used just the silver for a long time. A few months ago I bought the copper foil.

Each was good, but combined is was way better sonically in all areas that matter. I have recently tried this combo against some very pricey speaker cables and my Frankenstein arrangement is better.

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