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In Reply to: "a difference in length of not more than 40% worked pretty well... posted by musetap on November 24, 2015 at 23:44:55:
This part.The length of cable might be a problem with certain amps.
There is an obvious logic in keeping the lengths of speaker cable used in the hi-fi system the same. The vast majority of pairs of speaker cable that we supply are of equal lengths. Increasingly though, people are using odd lengths of speaker cable in a system. This is something that we researched quite carefully. What we found was that a difference in length of not more than 40% worked pretty well. So a 5 and a 3 metre pair, a 7 and a 4 metre pair and a 10 and a 6 metre pair were good. There are a couple of important points here though. Whilst the vast majority of amplifiers will be completely happy with a different length pair of speaker cables, some amplifiers use the speaker cable as part of the circuitry and in this case, cable lengths should be kept the same. Before using different lengths of speaker cable, it is important to check with the manufacturer of the amplifier.
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Follow Ups
- RE: "a difference in length of not more than 40% worked pretty well... - BCR 01:45:07 11/25/15 (1)
- Yes, it MIGHT be, but the majority of what they wrote suggests otherwise...N/T - musetap 11:27:17 11/25/15 (0)
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