RCA cable lenght

>>08-31-09: Stanwal
You can do it, you may get a little degradation but shortness of speaker wires will compensate for it.<<

Incorrect.

Short speaker wires will not "compensate" for any degradation in a system.

Sorry.

Also try to keep them away from any AC power lines.especially in a parallel run.

Audiofeil, what I thought would be obvious to anyone, and I was clearly wrong, was that keeping the wires short would be a benefit that would compensate to some degree for any loss in the longer cable run. I suppose I shall have to join Galileo in praising those of limited understanding who forced him to explain what he thought everyone already knew.

Let me expound even further on the subject. We apparently agree that in cables short is better than long. Let us further assume that if one is longer then the other can be shorter. We should then expect a degradation on the longer cable and an improvement on the shorter one, the exact proportion of each will vary with each case. This was the whole and sum of my statement about compensation.