I keep hearing, including from the historically (IMO) Paul McGowen, that cable length (within reason) makes no difference. I'm not so sure. I DO believe there is physical science behind wire sound, just it's either too complex to predict or beyond our ability to measure, either too small or some factor we don't measure or don't know about. Even if it's only a matter of tiny changes in resistance, capacitance and inductance, all those factors are dependent on wire length. A 2 meter cable will have roughly 2x the resistance of a 1 meter cable. Engineers will say agree that there's a difference but might say that it's too little to effect the sound and can be ignored. Well, how do they know what can be ignored if they don't know what's causing the sound changes? The usual answer is that we're all victims of self-delusion, poor experimental design or observer bias. That neatly avoids the elephant and is an ENTIRELY unacceptable response!
