Moving your equipment can from between your speakers can have a very positive effect. I think mine are 25 feet or so. Depending on your system the quality of the interconnects are important. Fortunately this time I was able to buy the same quality level that the rest of my system has.
I would recommend looking for a used set on used cables and Audiogon. Granted the probability is not that high… but something of that length is going to stay on the market for a long time. I think I have seen some in the past.