Mono amps and different length speaker cables

12-12-13: Grannyring
What if one cable is coiled or bent more than the other? Or one is an inch higher off the floor? Or if one is over wood and the other carpet? If one bends to the right and the other to the left? Well, that last one happens a lot:-)

3 feet difference and same cable? No way you will hear any difference my friend. No way. No chance. Never. Will not happen. Unless you hear strange voices in the night also?

Reasonable question actually, but near countless other things will impact your sound and this one happens to fall waaaay down the list of things to be concerned about. The condition of one spade vs. the other will have more impact.....look at that first. Oh no don't go there as life as you now know it will be over and audio anxiety will overtake you. No don't look at those spades! Just walk on by.....

Nothing is perfect. Isn't the goal to eliminate as many possible factors for higher quality sound? Why take a chance and just use 2 same length cables.

There are tons of explanations why cables, fuses, fuse direction ... SHOULD sound the same but they all sound different to me in MY system.

Get out the ruler as one of your cables may actually be an inch or two longer! LOL

12-13-13: Knghifi
Why take a chance and just use 2 same length cables.

Why assume that unequal lengths won't be better than equal lengths?

As I indicated earlier, I see no reason to make that assumption, at least in the biwire situation the OP appears to be describing. And a similar argument could probably be made for the more usual situation where the length difference would be between channels, rather than between the connections to high and low frequency drivers in each speaker.

Is it better to (a)have the two cables of equal length, so that their sonic effects are similar, or (b)to have one of the cables shorter, so that its sonic effects are reduced?

Either outcome is possible in any given system, as I see it, if in fact it makes any difference at all.

Regards,
-- Al

Interesting Al.

12-13-13: Grannyring
Get out the ruler as one of your cables may actually be an inch or two longer! LOL

You are missing the point!