Paul, I can only give it my best guess. I think, on the speaker side, the positive is like the fuel intake on a car and the negative is the exhaust. You want the cleanest signal possible going into the positive and you want to dump the negative back to the amp. So, you want the purest cable on the positive and the highest guage cable on the negative. This should give you the best attributes of using high and low guage and silver and copper cables. This is, again, just my guess.
To owners of both silver and copper speaker cables
Wire the silver cable on the positive leads on the speaker and amp, and wire the copper cable on the negative leads respectively.
Recently, I've wired a pair of AQ Argents on the two positive binding posts on both the high and low frequency connections on both my speakers. And I wired a pair of AQ Midnights on both the negative binding posts on both my speakers. On the amp side, I connected the Argents to the positive leads and the Midnights to the negative leads. I feel the sound quality has improved immensely. But I am not sure if I am just fooling myself, so why don't you guys who own both copper and silver cables try this and see how it works on your system and tell us your results.
Theory:
The Argents are obviously better than the Midnights. The Argents are smoother with higher resolution while offering much more musicality/rhythm while shedding some of the bloated bass that the Midnights have. So, I wished to buy another pair of Argents to wire the low frequency on my speaker.
Before spending the big bucks, I thought to experiment how my system would sound with the Argents connected to both the highs and lows at the same time. But the only way I can do that is to connect them to either the positve or negative leads, only.
I only tried connecting the Argents to the positve high and low leads and wired the Midnight to the negative leads (wiring this up was a pain since AQ are not very maleable).
What I hear from this set up:
All the positive attributes of both cables are inherent in the sound being produced with this set up. I have all the resolution in the highs and lows with a great sense of pace of the Argents while having the deep and extended bass of the Midnights. The bloated bass seems to be masked by the higher resolution I get from the mid bass region.
Recently, I've wired a pair of AQ Argents on the two positive binding posts on both the high and low frequency connections on both my speakers. And I wired a pair of AQ Midnights on both the negative binding posts on both my speakers. On the amp side, I connected the Argents to the positive leads and the Midnights to the negative leads. I feel the sound quality has improved immensely. But I am not sure if I am just fooling myself, so why don't you guys who own both copper and silver cables try this and see how it works on your system and tell us your results.
Theory:
The Argents are obviously better than the Midnights. The Argents are smoother with higher resolution while offering much more musicality/rhythm while shedding some of the bloated bass that the Midnights have. So, I wished to buy another pair of Argents to wire the low frequency on my speaker.
Before spending the big bucks, I thought to experiment how my system would sound with the Argents connected to both the highs and lows at the same time. But the only way I can do that is to connect them to either the positve or negative leads, only.
I only tried connecting the Argents to the positve high and low leads and wired the Midnight to the negative leads (wiring this up was a pain since AQ are not very maleable).
What I hear from this set up:
All the positive attributes of both cables are inherent in the sound being produced with this set up. I have all the resolution in the highs and lows with a great sense of pace of the Argents while having the deep and extended bass of the Midnights. The bloated bass seems to be masked by the higher resolution I get from the mid bass region.