New speaker cables for the Bryston Mini-Ts?
 

I am currently using some “home made” Blue Jean Cables for my Mini-Ts they are configured for Bi-wire and are 10ga.

A very good friend just gave me a pair of Audioquest Jaguar 24V speaker cables.

I have run in wall cables same BJC wire from my amp to the speaker locations.

Would I be better off doing away with the bi-wire set up using my home made cables and use the audioquest cables without the bi-wire??

Or, could I use one set of my homemade cables for 1 of the Mini-t s and the audioquest jaguars for the other Mini-T??

Why don't you A/B your options and see if you come up with a preferred set-up. That is usually what I do to see what stays and what goes.

Hmmmm................ can't imagine using different cables for each speaker.

Try the speakers with the BJC, then try the speakers with the AQ cables.

If your speakers can be bi-wired then with the AQ cables it may sound a bit thin compared to the bi-wire BJC cables.

My thought is that a bi-wired pair of AQ would sound better than the BJC bi-wired pair. And a bi-wired pair of Wireworld cables would blow the BJC's and the AQ's right out of the water.

As soon as I bi-wired my Aerial Acoustic Model 8s they came alive. The change was amazing.

That's why I'm asking...This is all new to me... I just started this journey and I'm a poor guy who can barely afford the electricity to drive all my gear! :yikes:

Seriously, I am really new to high end audio and even auditioning different cables blows my mind.

All this time, I thought electrons were electrons?

Would stick with whichever set sounds best to your ears. However, suggest you stick with a matched set.

“What he said”

Matched set and equal lengths.

Definitely, matched set and equal lengths per side. Bi-wire is usually better, all else being equal. But you might as well try the single-wire AQ cables and see what you think - they use very good quality copper and solid core conductors, which many audiophiles consider to be of significant advantage over stranded copper (like the Blue Jeans, I believe).

You're probably confusing the AQ model name - the "Jaguar" was one of their copper interconnects from 2 lines ago (more than 10 years ago now). This model did feature 24V bias at one time, but it was never a speaker cable. The "similar" cable in the speaker lineup of that time would probably be the "Pike's Peak". It too was copper, also featured an emerald green / black braid, and probably had 24V at one time too. You can always send the cables back to Audioquest's Irvine facility for re-termination to biwire, but that particular cable's geometry is not well suited for it. In fact the succeeding line (Tree series) rectified that shortcoming.

mulveling you are absolutely correct. I got the cable names confused, as my friend gave me a box FULL of cables, mostly AQs but some other brands commingled in with them. You nailed both correctly. The Jaguars are interconnects.

Thanks to everyone’s input; I was unaware of mixing cables. Interesting.
Will try and experiment.