Cables from amp to preamp or longer speaker cables…


So today I was in the room that I’m setting up for dedicated listening. Speakers will be at the front of the room and sofa will be at the other end. I dug out a pair of expensive speaker cables I had from many years ago and discovered they are only about six feet long. This would be ok if I had my rig set up behind the speakers but I want to sit on that sofa at the far end of the room (12 feet away) and have my Benchmark DAC 3 HGC beside me so I can plug headphones in occasionally……do I buy long speaker cables (probably expensive), or would I place my amp behind the speakers and run long cable from that to the preamp beside the sofa and if so would this long cable create any issues?

thomastrouble

There are unbalanced to unbalanced converters. I don't know what people think about their sound, but that might be something necessary for your setup.

shorter cables to speaker....longer from preamp to amp.  XLR is good if your components are differentially balanced

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks so far guys - I’ll have to check my Benchmark amp and preamp to see what kind of connections are on there as I’m sure I have some balanced cables laying around.

Try it! :)

But XLR with true balanced inputs (not the whole thing truly balanced) are your best bet for low noise.

Otherwise, go by what is convenient.  How are you going to turn those amps on and off?