Paul Speltz speaker cables

I just recieved my anti-cables in the mail.
Very fast shipping!
They sure are stiff,more than I imagined.
I havent installed them yet but have read over the 'manual' Paul includes.
Im a bit confused with what he writes.

"The stiffness of the wires will help you keep them suspended in the air.Do your best to keep them a few inches away from anything,including the carpeted floor.Extra long Anti-Cable runs (Mine are 10') can be better managed by attaching a small plastic cable tie (included) every couple of feet.This will help the wires move as one,without adversely affecting the sound"
He then notes "Keeping each wire somewhat seperate minimizes the magnetic fields of the wires from interacting with each other" Huh?
I want to install these properly but now Im a bit confused.
Sean? Anyone?
BTW,they look very well made and are quite heavy.

I have a 10' run w/spades arriving in a couple days.
It will take me a while to place them properly as Paul suggests.
I dont know what my cats will do when they see wire dangling in the air.
Im excited to try these on my new speakers as I've been using MIT T-3's to tame my Thiels.Im still using them on my Soundwaves.
I have a gut feeling from all I've read on these cables,they are going to sound superb.
I'll give my impressions in a few days.

Sean-
I opened the link 'innersound/Goertz combo'.
In AA I see you mentioned Threshold which I own.
Im not a tech.whiz but am I way off 'assuming'
all this information about amps oscillating will make the anti-cables a poor/dangerous match for my amp?
Am I way off??

I asked Paul Speltz about how to configure his cables; he allowed me to quote him here:
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Dave,

The last time I went on the A-gon discussion form, they chopped the entire discussion out. I must have broken some "rule", so I'll stay out of it.

I have not tried twisting the Anti-Cables. You should ask Sean if he has tried it, since he seems to be recommending it.

Feel free to post a quote of what I have said below on A-gon if you like. Let them know this is what I told you.

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It is true that twisting the wires decreases the speaker cable's series inductance, but it also increases the cable's parallel shunting capacitance. Shunting capacitance tends to make amplifiers with feedback (as most do) unstable.

Now, getting back to the series inductance issue... Any series inductance in the Anti-Cable run is almost always offset by the tweater's's inductance. After all, it is a "voice coil", and coil has much more inductance than a
straight piece of non coiled wire.

Usually a tweater's's impedance rise, due to inductance, is much greater than even a very long run of Anti-cable wire, so any impedance rise due to series inductance in the Anti-cables can be disregarded.

Just look at all 3 speakers reviewed in the most recent issue of Stereophile (April 2005):

Page 139, NTH speaker impedance rises from 7.0 ohms to 7.9 ohms in the top octave.

Page 146, Linn speaker impedance rises from 3.0 ohms to 4.5 ohms in the top octave.

Page 159, EPOS speaker impedance rises from 4.0 ohms to 5.4 ohms in the top octave.

Might I be so bold as to suggest, there is the possibility that the extra treble information people hear when using a low inductance (high capacitance design) could be amplifier oscillation bursts that add spatial information. After all there is a company called TDS Audio (True Dimensional Sound) that makes a produce that intentionally created transitional oscillations to add spatial information.

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So, to answer your 1st question... run the wires separate, if it is to messy, use tie wraps every couple of feet to clean it up. If the sound degrades, you can easily cut the tie wraps off again.

Use your own ears, and trust yourself.

Please let me know how it goes.

Thanks!

Paul
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Thank you Sean

Who has tried the anti-cables loosely or tightly tied together,or even twisted verses keeping the individual cables spaced apart by at least a couple of inches?
Has anyone experimented and found a sonic difference?