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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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twoleftears
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Maybe 3 sets of cables twisted together would be even better?

If you do that, you have to start braiding them.
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twoleftears
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What you're describing is a fairly conventional set-up called shotgun, but with a significant variant.  Classic shotgun is two identical cables terminated at both ends with single set of spades or bananas to attach to amp and speaker.  Hence the name: double-barreled.

In a biwire situation, you could certainly have one type of cable on the speaker's tweeter connection, and another on its woofer.

You suggest, in a sense, combining these two set-ups.  As others have suggested, if could just as easily (or more easily) lead to messing up the sound as enhancing it.  Given that there are so many variables, only a trial would tell.
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