Gauge + Length +Material = Sound

Pierre at Mapleshade believes that speaker cable should be at least 8' long so they are not the only ones who have this idea. I don't necessarily agree, I have tried a lot of things and the only thing I have learned is that it is hard to predict what will happen.

This was from Ted Denney directly at Synergistic who said there would be a rapid drop off in performance of a speaker cable under 6 feet. I would have thought the other way around but there does seem to to be some negatives with my short cable experiment but bigger positive improvements. I guess it depends what it is you are trying to achieve with a cable, purest sound transfer or altering it in some way.

As far as my tweeters sounding hotter, they just seemed to get louder shifting the tonal balance when I am using the 6 inch solid core hook up wire in comparison to the longer identical 5.5 foot wire. I have bumped up the capacitor size to the tweeter to lower the level. I do prefer the shorter wire as it gives me goosebumps as the presentation is more lifelike. Now I'm thinking of trying some gold alloy based hook up wire but have not been able to find a supplier.

I now see what you mean Frankk. So you're thinking that maybe the gold alloy may tame the tweeter without adjusting the capacitance? Well, that may happen, others seem to hear this phenomenon. If you go that route please inform us as to your findings.