Gauge + Length +Material = Sound

I have preffered the finer guage wires in the ICs that I have heard.Start at 24ga,then try a 30-35 ga solid core conductor.If not intimidated go higher (40-50).

Just moved my monoblocks up to my speakers and went from 5.5 feet of solid teflon covered 12 gauge Neotech Occ ohno down to 6 inches.

The sound is cleaner, more direct and live, but losing a bit in fullness. Anther downside is my tweeters are hotter sounding which is not to my liking. I guess more energy/signal is being transferred. Would love to hear from any experts as to why this might be happening.

I enquired with Synergistic Research about obtaining a super short cable from them and they said they don't sell anything under 6 feet as the cable will not be effective at shorter lengths. Call this what you may.

Frankk...what on Gods's green earth do you mean by "hotter"? LoL. Also, "the cable will not be effective at shorter lengths"? Who did you speak to over there...the administrative secretary!?

Pierre at Mapleshade believes that speaker cable should be at least 8' long so they are not the only ones who have this idea. I don't necessarily agree, I have tried a lot of things and the only thing I have learned is that it is hard to predict what will happen.

This was from Ted Denney directly at Synergistic who said there would be a rapid drop off in performance of a speaker cable under 6 feet. I would have thought the other way around but there does seem to to be some negatives with my short cable experiment but bigger positive improvements. I guess it depends what it is you are trying to achieve with a cable, purest sound transfer or altering it in some way.

As far as my tweeters sounding hotter, they just seemed to get louder shifting the tonal balance when I am using the 6 inch solid core hook up wire in comparison to the longer identical 5.5 foot wire. I have bumped up the capacitor size to the tweeter to lower the level. I do prefer the shorter wire as it gives me goosebumps as the presentation is more lifelike. Now I'm thinking of trying some gold alloy based hook up wire but have not been able to find a supplier.