I do not think that it makes any difference. I have used bare wire twisted together as one at the amp (for a shotgun setup) as well as bare wire plus bananas (the bananas on the low end). I thought that I could hear a difference when the bananas were on the high end though. More important is just having solid/tight connections however that is achieved. I have pretty good binding posts on my speakers and amps which still need to re-tightened every week or so (maybe it's from vibration and or heating and cooling, I don't know).
Bi-Wire or Double Run of Single Wire ???
I have a two pairs of single run speaker cables that I want to use in my Den system. I want to use both single pairs and Bi-Wire. Has anyone experimented with this?? My questions is: Is it better to re-terminate the two pairs together at the amplifier end, or is will there be no sonic difference if I just put the two sets of spades together in the binding post on the amplifier?? Thanks in advance!!!