Need help from Vandersteen owners....

(( Do you know if integral bi wires sound inferior to completely separate biwire runs?))
Yes Int Bi wires are made from companies that want to keep things neat as a prority.
There is no other advantage.
True Biwiring is best....
A Double pair of same ga runs best.
Try to keep them at least 4 inches apart and off the floor for best results Stans wires above shoud work quite well .... Kimber 12 TC double runs is what we are running on Treos
Cheers JohnnyR

Great choice in speakers....
((Several reports suggested that I should not buy an integral bi-wire and that only totally separate wire runs of the exact cables should be used, is this true?))

Here is a simple non bi wire trick you can do to test the Wires character with your Treos amd then have a confident opinion of what you like or dislike.
Take the normal speaker wires red positive and hook it to the Treo's Tweeter plus terminal.
Take the Black wire and hook it to the Treo's Woofer negative terminal now just run a small single jumper from the woofers negative to tweeters negative.
Take another single jumper and jump the Tweeter positive to Woofers positive. If you cant sourch the exact jumpers from the wire you are testing a small solid core jumper will work.
This will allow you to expierience the wires DNA or character with your speakers. A good nuetral wire will allow you to enjoy the music and will only sound better when you do Bi-Wire.
Having the same companies interconnect in the system makes sense and will help shorten the confusion as most well engineeried cables work as a system.
What each company feels is nuetral or what their intended bias is with your equipment is your call in your system.
Best JohnnyR