Biwire with different cables?


Spoke with an Audioquest factory guy today and he suggested I biwire my Vandy 2Cs using the same wire for hooking up both high and low ends. I got to thinking that to help correct a slightly muddy bottom, I might try using a silver cable there and copper on the tweeter/mid posts. Any problem doing this or experiences? Suggestions on low cost cables? I use biwired Anticables now.
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I am currently working on this one too. It would really depend on the speakers in questions and the partnering amps. I am using a pair of Luxman M800a as monoblocks and speakers are Verity Sarastros. Goal is to increase clarity at the bass.

I have been using mostly Stealth Dream single wire with the jumpers. I compared it to true biwire with two pairs of Dreams and also using one pair of biwire dreams (2 to 4; shotgun config). The shotgun one did not do much and I prefer single wire with jumper. ( Caveat is that I had to connect to the upper binding post of the bass module). Running two pairs of single wire cables increased the loudness of the bass and improved clarity of the midrange more than the clarity of the bass. Loudness may be due to more conductors and clarity in midrange is due to effect described by Plelko.

I also tried mixing the Stealth with Ridge street audio Alethias (Silver ribbon) and Analysis PLus Crystal Oval ( coppper) at different locations. The silver cable produce the most leading edge definition at the bass but bass note did not hang in the air as long as the stealth. It did produce the effect of tightening up the bass. One of my friends likes it. I like what it does with the sound of double bass (more bite ) but I feel a piano note should propagates for longer. It is really subjective whether you will like it or not.

To my suprise, the sound was reasonably coherent. This may be due to first order cross over of the Sarastros. there is considerable overlap in the midrange and bass drivers.

The Analysis Plus lands me somewhere in between.

My next experiment is vertical biamp.