Subwoofer hunt

Thanks for the input Bob.  The only reason for wanting to keep the cables short was simply "tidiness"...cable management, if you will.  Short will let me avoid having a lot of extra length laying around.

FWIW - am going to order a few feet of a Belden 5000 series 12 gauge from Blue Jeans Cable (along with some spade terminations).  

oleschool - I did try using pre-outs from the pre-amp.  I thought that would be the way to go.  BUT when I experimented trying the high level inputs...connecting subs to amp - I immediately thought things sounded better hooked up that way.  Go figure.  

@spoutjack 
I hope the answers to the questions I've asked are helpful to you.  

@bob_reynolds

Hello again Bob. I prefer banana plugs myself but that option is already taken at both the amp and the speaker terminals by the normal speaker wire. It’ll have to be spades/spades I think.

Should be able to wrangle a short length (3-5'?)of the Belden 10 gauge and get it to play nice. If it’s stiff enough, might even help keep it off the carpet.

Thanks guys for all your inputs. However I still have one more question :) promise this would be the last. 

So if I plan to just connect "ONE" sub for now. and if I still want to go with the high level inputs and not the pre-out from the sub how do I connect since there are two channels out there left and the right. Which one would I connect to?