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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.
kettle7830
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almarg
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BTW, Kijanki, apart from the fact that there is apparently no inductance specification for Cardas Clear Reflection, all of the Cardas cables the OP mentioned have vastly lower resistance and inductance than the numbers assumed in your calculations. So your conclusion that the differences in resistance and inductance resulting from a 1 meter length difference are unlikely to have audible consequences is even more true.

Best regards,
-- Al
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kijanki
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Agree, the difference is very small. Could my love for symmetry come from watching too many episodes of Monk?
plasmatech
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Possibly. The capacitance, resistance, inductance will be different. The question is how sensitive is your amp to the changes...my advice is hook up equal lengths and hook them to the mid treble and run a short jumper to the bass...a Cardas Clear silver spade jumper. Pt
scvan
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Depending on the difference in length, maybe? A few feet difference, probably not. I can almost guarantee the variation in the crossover of the speakers, or even on the amp side will be much bigger than a few feet of cable.

Some people will disagree, but how many people rip their crossover apart to guarantee that each component right to left is within less than 1% difference? Even the coil on driver to driver is probably bigger than that.
wolf_garcia
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Same old dilemma: Length or girth?
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