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Single vs Bi-wire Speaker Cable

I'm going to purchase some AQ speaker cables, and am considering bi-wired AQ Robin Hood Zero vs full range William Tell Zero (with quality jumpers). The bi-wired RH is about $500 more expensive than the full range WT, but on a comparable basis, WT is the more expensive cable. Any thoughts on sound quality between the options I described above would be greatly appreciated.

sdw

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thyname
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One great cable is better than two lessor cables. 

I totally agree with this.

With the 802D's I believe they suggest to run the wire to the bottom jacks, then jumper(s) to the top jacks. 

Any sources for this? I believe this to be false. Speaker cables to HF first, then jumpers to LF. I apologize if I am mistaken 

 

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thyname
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@sdw : OP, what is your amp? And your speakers?

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thyname
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@boxer12 : no worries whatsoever. I know this because I own B&W Diamonds 😉

 

And I do use two speaker runs from my amp to my speakers. My amp has dual speaker taps

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thyname
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@sdw :

Do you think two speaker runs are better than bi-wiring with one cable?

Yes I do. Based on my own experiments, various speaker cable configurations. To my ears. Having said this, I have no measurements, or double blind tests to show to back this up 😂😉🤦‍♂️

 

 

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