mooster1223 wrote:

I'm putting a Vincent SP331 Hybrid amp online next week. It has two separate outputs per channel. My current cables are Bi-Wired, AudioQuest Midnight (pain in the butt to work with).

I've been thinking about running some multi strand Belden 5000 series (Blue Jean Cable) and running one output from the amp directly to the tweeter and the other amp output to the woofer. The cost of the cable is SOOOOOO inexpensive that if it doesn't work out, I'm really not out much. They also offer both 12 and 10 gauge wire. Would it make sense to use 10 for the woofer and 12 for the tweeter?

Is this a sound idea? Separate cable for the tweeter and separate cable for the woofer?

You don't say if your woofer is self-powered or not.

If has its own amplifier you only need like #20 wire from the LF speaker posts to the speaker-level inputs of the sub. The signal current is so small that the wire size is irrelevant.

If it is being powered by an outboard power amp, then #10 would be good from that amp to the sub.

#12 wire is usually all you need from the main amplifiers to the speakers, assuming the run is less than 20 feet. I Used to have that same Audioquest cable (at one time they called it Indigo).

The #12 Monoprice pure copper speaker wire is #2789 and is $40 for 100 feet. You won't go broke there.

Use the Audioquest gold-plated lugs to terminate the wires and solder them on, with heat-shrink tubing around the shank of the lug to insulate against inadvertent contact. Needle Doctor sells them.