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Possibly dumb question: can I use two cable runs for each channel, not bi-wired?

I'm moving my components into another room, in order to shorten the existing 30 foot cable runs to about 10 feet,
and will run the cable through the wall between adjoining rooms. I'm wondering if I can make use of the resulting "left-over" lengths of cable by doubling up each run, utilizing one pair of binding posts for each side. Has anyone tried this? Question #2: should the pairs be jointly terminated,or should I use bananas coupled with spades, so that there are 4 terminations at each post? I haven't sen any references to this in the past, so it may well be in violation of some basic rule of physics, but I thought I'd ask, anyway. 

stuartk

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mambacfa
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I use double-cables two ways: 

a) For amps that I've owned having two sets of speaker outputs (Adcom and Krell) I have bi-wired by using both of these outputs and two sets of cables to bi-wirable speakers, like my B&W805D. 

b) For speakers that are NOT bi-wirable (my Thiel CS3.7) I run two sets of speaker cables and double them up on the speaker terminals. I'm doing this with two sets of Nordost Heimdall cables that I made from a single, really long run. I found that this added a little something to the sound. I think the additional cable mass makes a difference. Perhaps this is in line with Nordost's move toward more cable mass in their newer models. 
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