Speaker cable length for mono blocks

The shorter the better. I have about one metre of what I think is Ultra Cable, which was highly regarded cable ten, twelve years ago. I have never felt the need to improve on this. One of the advantages of mono blocks, I think, is that you are able to position them close to the speaker. The idea is to keep the amps clear of the speakers so they don't interfere with dispersion (limits this to the sides with dipoles unless the amp is kept on the floor below the transducer element itself) and air circulation, and to keep the interconnects short also. No point in having long runs of interconnect to compensate for extra short speaker cables, unless they are balanced. On the subject of cabling, it is interesting to read what the Bryston site has to say before going off the deep end cable-wise. Interconnects and speaker cables are a fools paradise, so beware.

The shorter the better less resantace. The other point is you can get a much better cable.

this is yet another of those queries that has been posted more than a few times. (suppressing big YAWN here to placate tonite's chosen moderators.) to save all those who find audiogon's search engine impossible to fathom, here's the consensus: shorter is better (but only with cables) unless you care a whit about resale value, in which such case you should use nothing shorter than 4 feet each side. -cfb

Sorry if I bored anyone (cfb.) Ninja, does a better cable really matter in this situation of short short length as long as basic parameters of sensible gauge, low resistance, capacitance,and inductance are followed?

ivanj: now your later question IS interesting (at least to my jaded mind). are there really exceptional cables of which you are aware that do not meet your "basic parameters"? if so, are you implying that one may ignore the superiority of such cables if one uses REALLY short lengths? are you willing to tell us, then, which brands and models of cables you would consider best in your system were longer lengths called for that you feel free to reject given your current configuration? -cfb