Tube Monoblock location? - Rack or near speakers?


Mike for quicksilver recommends that I place the mini mite monoblocks close to the speakers to minimize the speaker cable length. This will mean rca runs of 10 to 15 ft! This is contrary to everything that I've heard. I assumed that speaker cable runs can be much longer than rca and are less prone to interference and capacitance + resistance?

Any opinions would be appreciated.
cooljazzcat
Opinions vary, but I've had good success following Quicksilver's advice: longer interconnects and shorter speaker cables, when talking about one or the other being greater than 8 feet.

FWIW, I follow Lloyd Walker's advice of keeping speaker cables consistently at 8 feet rather than using the shortest length possible. He claims to have tested this multiple times and consistently found the 8 foot length superior to shorter lengths of the same cable. I trust his ears. He says it has to do with back wave EMF from the drivers. Clearly, YMMV.
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in case with quickies that have a very high input sensitivity and low output power the advice is correct.
I have my mid-monos sitting close to my speakers and I have 3ft speaker cables and 6ft ICs. Sounds perfect to me, Mike really knows his stuff...
It seems odd that they would want the tubes vibrating.All tubes are microphonic.They(the tubes) might even get more microphonic with all the vibration rattling their insides possibly causing a premature failure. Then a longer run of interconnects too.Longer speaker cables have always been preferred over longer IC's.Its a new one to me.