For a budget - True bi-wire or bi-wire?


Simple question. I have a speaker with four binding posts and monoblocks with four binding posts(for each channel). If I have a given budget for cables (say $1000), am I better off buying two pairs of identical $500 cables and do a true bi-wire, or buy a $1000 single pair of a typical bi-wired cable (i.e. no separate cable runs, but a biwire that is simply split at the speaker end)?. This is not about any particular calbe I have in mind. It bold down to how does the improvement I get from more expensive cable compare to improvement trough true bi-wire
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There are only two genuine wiring methods, true Single wiring and true Biwiring. Every other by-product of this is a pseudo configuration.
If a speaker is built for true biwiring, meaning separate crossovers for each pair of terminals, it will sound far superior in biwiring configuration. In such a situation even a decent set of two separate run wires (true biwiring) costing say about $500 in total would easily outperform a single wiring set costing $1000 or even more.

Whereas if your speaker is not built with true biwirng as part of the design, even though it might have multiple set of terminals, you would never benefit from biwiring, you are much better off buying a nice pair of single wiring set.
In fact it can sound worse with biwiring as well.

You need to ask your speaker manufacturer whether the speaker is designed for true biwiring. IF he suggests you biwire, you can be pretty much sure that he has done it internally.