Speaker cable length

@millercarbon 

i'm always sus about people who've claim to have figured it out. no matter how ourt of touch they may be with interior decor

@simao FWIW I have tried the same brand of speaker cables in three different but equal lengths with the same amplifiers and same speakers . (I own monoblock amps.) It's an interesting experiment.

I tried speaker cable lengths of 3.5M, 1.5M and .5M. In my system the length that sounded the best was 1.5M. When testing the 3.5M, I had a 2M IC XLR between the amps and the preamp. For the 1.5M and .5M, I had a 15ft IC XLR between the amps and preamp.
Although the .5M had plenty of jump, it made the high frequencies sizzle a touch and vocals sounded too forward. The 3.5M sounded "slow." The 1.5M made the sizzle disappear, located the vocals realistically in the sound stage and the music pace seemed faster than the 3.5M.YMMV

simao-

@millercarbon  

i'm always sus about people who've claim to have figured it out. no matter how ourt of touch they may be with interior decor

Relax. I still haven’t figured out grammar either.

What I have figured out though, wire length doesn’t matter but wire quality does. You will get only the tiniest improvement moving equipment off to the side. This is not something I claim to have figured out. This is something I actually tried and heard the difference. It is negligible. The difference in sound quality though, for whatever your budget is, if you have $500 it will buy you hugely better speaker cables at 8 ft than 20 ft. No contest. You will crap at what you lost. For all your work moving all that stuff around.

But you go ahead, ridicule me for knowing what I am talking about. Who knows, maybe next time even spell a word or two correctly.

@millercarbon truthfully i’m considering making this move, as i mentioned before, out of aesthetic reasons, not because i’m panicking about sonics diminished by equipment between speakers. my question was about speaker cable length which, i believe, has been answered from many sources, including you. heaven forbid someone gets under your thin skin with casual ridicule.

You really do not want to go over the magic sound of an eight foot pair of speaker cables especially with the sound of a full range system.