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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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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