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Speaker wire run lengths
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Is it true that the run lengths of speaker wires should be as close as possible (for example, the runs to the rear surrounds)? What difference, if any, will this make?
I ask because the one of my runs to the surrounds will probably be a different length than the other one since I have to lay the wire around the front of our fireplace.
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Re: Speaker wire run lengths
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The difference in length has to be HUGE to be able to hear the difference.
I do not remember the exact number, but I know it is in at least the hundreds of feet.
curtis
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Re: Speaker wire run lengths
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Curtis is right, MC. It would be essentially impossible to have the length different enough so that a time delay could be heard. The longer wire shouldn't be longer than the suggested maximum length for a wire of that gauge, but there's no reason to worry about having both the same length.
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Re: Speaker wire run lengths
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old hand
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Here's a table showing the maximum length for various gauges of wire.
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Re: Speaker wire run lengths
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Indeedy. It's just another way the wire manufacturers try to take your money. Which should go into more speakers. Axiom speakers. (And that FREE advertising is why Amie should send me a pair of M22s).
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