Speaker Cables, One side longer- bad idea?

Raguirre, yes, as Marakanetz said above, RLC, resistance, inductance and capacitance will vary with length, or so I have been told. The question is by how much and what effect that would have on the sound. If something goes up by 50% from .011 to .016 whatever the units are (not 1.1 % distortion to 1.6, that would be audible and not what I mean,) will you hear a difference? I think not.

Now, with ridiculously different lengths of zip wire you may hear a difference because, and I rely on what others have told me since I am not an engineer, zip wire has higher measured inductance and capacitance.

The best reasons for keeping equal lengths are flexibility in rearranging your furniture and resale value. Very hard to sell mismatched cables.

Hi Bwhite, Any job openings at your company? If you have the time to post all that at work AND get paid enough to afford this hobby, I'm in.

Interesting thoughts though.

Herman - Thanks for the laugh!

Hmmm...such fun, Bry.
But I believe the difference in electrical properties of the unequal cables will result in a different LOADING of the driving amplifier, thereby slightly changing the frequwncy response of each side, and THAT's what one could hear. Certainly would be the case with a high output impedence cable running hi-value cables assymmetrically, no?
I find it safer to run asymmetrical interconnects to monos, and then keep the speaker cables equal.
Another thought: imagine coiling the extra cable up and thus creating a huge inductor acting as a high pass into one side!
OTOH the effect is minimal if very low value cables (like Nordost, etc) are used, the output impedence of the amp is very low, and the ratio of L and R sides is small.
Good night.