Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables


I was given a pair of premium quality speaker cables but they’re about 1ft short on each side and there’s no way to change it. If I added an extra 1ft of cheaper cable would it defeat the purpose?

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Just finished my kappa 9 infinities  took apart looked like someone used cca in there.replaced the crossover and internal wire with 10 awg ofc.replaced the 2 woofers and it sounds great oak cabs. I think if you solder good wire on it won't hurt as an extension. I built a speaker cable out of 4 awg wire ofc and they sound great.i think my cardas gold reference is 4 awg. Enjoy the experiments and the music.

In my Magnepan Mini office system, I need 2 sets of speaker cables. One set from the amp (stereo)  to the bass module. Then another set from the bass module to the tweeter + mid satellite panels. I used cheap (but well regarded) cables on both sets and it was very good. I even wrote about it on A'gon.

However, I added a stand to raise the bass panel off the floor and this allowed me to use the very short expensive Audience FrontRow speaker cables I purchased in the past for monoi blocks.  Adding this expensive speaker cable did improve the sound a bit more on the Maggies.

I do have another set of long Audience FrontRow speaker cables I use for my Livingroom system and can try an all Audience setup on the office Maggie system, but I have not done this yet.  think I will try this next week.

Absolutely not. Electricity doesn't know nor care if it's OFC or silver or any other conductor if it's the same or similar gauge wire. Objectively, you won't notice any difference.  

Not at all. Some may just want to know that they all have an extra cable in front of their nice cables too.