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Uneven speaker cable lengths?

I switched back to Vandersteens a while back and am trying to extract the last bit out of the setup. I have been using Cardas Clear with great success. However Clear can not be biwired, and Clear Beyond is out of my range.

Would I notice a difference if I use a 2m pair on one side and a 3m pair on the other side.

I am currently trying Clear Reflection biwired, and the biwired setup is an improvement in many ways. But the Clear is more to my liking.
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onhwy61
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The audiophile dogma is that listening trumps theory. Has anybody actually heard a difference when using unmatched cable lengths?
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mapman
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Probably won't make a noticeable difference but certainly could so the safe bet is to just keep them equal.
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almarg
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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.

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-- Al
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mapman
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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.
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kijanki
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Imaging and coherence are very important to me. Would you replace just one of the tweeters with the best one you can afford or replace one of the monoblocks with much better one. Should it still bring improvements because "one could produce results that are BETTER than having both of them ... equal"?
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