Uneven speaker cable lengths and cable termination

This is certainly worth our time to consider. Perhaps a blind test. Two speaker cables of equal or greater value compared to two of unequal length. Hmm. Is it happy hour. 75 feet is a little long. I don't think I have an out door extension cord that long and I have an electric lawn mower. Sometimes when the extension gets a kink in it the lawn mower stops mowing. I call the repair man.

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Now you made me suspicious of this show - why would they need 75 feet of the speaker cable? Only one explanation jumps at me: It wasn't audio show - IT WAS ELECTRIC LAWNMOWER SHOW.

Ahochan: As far as the length discrepency - won't matter. The difference in electrical properties of the two different lengths is not significant. Sure there will be some difference in all three electrical values because they each depend on the length. But, the effect of these differences is unimportant in your application. The practical difference matters no more than, for example, whether the temperature in your refrigerator is 34 degrees F as opposed to 34.005 degrees F.

As far as connectors at the end of cables - does not really matter either. One can have problems with the connection between the cable and the connector and some banannas can result in poor connection at the male - female connection. You do eliminate these potential problems by going with bare wire. Of course making good crimp or solder connections and unplugging and plugging the banannas every six months also ensures no problems. But, there is no significant advantage to using spade or bananna termination - so no reason to spend the money if you are on a very tight budget.

Tradespersons and reviewers heard no difference.

I was there, you weren't kijunky and soundsreally.

Accept the facts and move on to something with which you've had more actual experience. Obviously it's not audio.

Perhaps lawnmowers are your calling.

Well - If we assume that 70' of cable doesn't make any difference than cable itself doesn't make any difference and Home Depot lamp cord as good as Stealth Indra and thousands of dollars saved. Do you really believe that - if you do then why are you posting on the CABLE forum?

Super fine things that differentiate hi-end from mass market hifi-ish products are happening at the level of about -80dB (1 part in 10000) and in case of imaging perhaps even finer. At this point we don't event understand physics behind perfect sound like we don't understand why silver cable sound different (on average) than copper one.

With 75' cable capacitance has probably very little effect because of low source/load impedance but inductance in series does. 4.4 ohm of additional (inductive)impedance at 20kHz (1 Ohm at 4kHz) in series with the tweeter will cause big change. We can discuss if 7.5' vs 6' make audible difference but not 75'.

Sombody posted once that XLR cables can be run at any distance without signal degradation - how about a mile?
People get serious.