Uneven speaker cable lengths?

This will influence the damping factor of your amplifier, which will, again in theory influence the ability of your amplifier to have control over your loudspeakers, wihich would be a little diffirent for both loudspeakers.

Difference of 1m both ways equals roughly to 6ft. Asssuming 14 gauge wire 6ft x 0.004ohm/ft=0.024ohm. Impedance of speaker itself is mostly resistive. Assuming 3ohm for 4ohm speaker, change in overall impedance is 0.8%.

Additional meter of wire will add inductance of 3uH causing about 0.4ohm of additional inductive reactance at 20kHz. Again, it might not be audible since tweeter's impedance increases with frequency.

The audiophile dogma is that listening trumps theory. Has anybody actually heard a difference when using unmatched cable lengths?

Probably won't make a noticeable difference but certainly could so the safe bet is to just keep them equal.

Probably won't make a noticeable difference but certainly could so the safe bet is to just keep them equal.

But as I indicated earlier, if it does make a difference why assume that having equal lengths will be better than making one of them shorter? Isn't it just as conceivable that the supposed advantages of having equal lengths, in terms of coherence and imaging, might be outweighed in a given application by shortening one of the cables and thereby reducing the effects of that cable on the signal?

In all of the threads I have seen here on this question, there are only two positions that seem to be taken: Either it will make no difference, or the equal length condition will be better. I submit that there is a third position which is just as conceivable, that shortening one of the cables but not the other one could produce results that are BETTER than having both of them long but equal.

Best regards,
-- Al

Equal lengths is the safe bet for same performance l and r.

Shorter is always better though. Is more balanced better? It has advantage of being balanced.

You could try both and see or if not possible, just choose and be done.