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Trimming speaker wire


Harleywood

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1 hour ago, Harleywood said:

Cut to fit placement of each speaker or both channels cut to same length? Due to room layout I'll have one speaker about 6 feet from amp and the other about 12 feet. I've got my cables cut now at 15 feet each. I often like to move my speakers around as well so are there any advantages to cutting the wires to the exact length you need like signal degradation over a longer wire and such? 

 

McIntosh recommends keeping the cable lengths equal. Here is the recommendation for cable size at 8 ohms: 25 feet = 14AWG, 50 feet=12AWG, 100 feet=10AWG. Don't think you will need 8 or 12AWG at 15 feet. 

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29 minutes ago, Peter P. said:

time delay differences

In wifi/remote yes. In a cable, a signal would traverse five times the earth's circumference in about a second - or less than a nanosecond (1/1000,000,000 sec) in a speaker cable. My ears aren't that good :) 

Cheers, Emile

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