Speaker Wire and equal disdance

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BobSD

Audioholic
I am sure this question has been asked before, I only want to know if say one speakers wire is 5ft and the other 10ft, would you actually be able to hear a difference. I hate coiling up a bunch of speaker wire on one side because it is much closer to the A/V reciever.
 
Phil Taylor

Phil Taylor

Senior Audioholic
You may be able to notice the difference - but only if your ears are good enough to hear a gnat fart from across the room. I know mine were killed long ago by too much rock n roll.... :eek:
 
Soundman

Soundman

Audioholic Field Marshall
You may be able to notice the difference - but only if your ears are good enough to hear a gnat fart from across the room. I know mine were killed long ago by too much rock n roll.... :eek:
............:p
 
croseiv

croseiv

Audioholic Samurai
You may be able to notice the difference - but only if your ears are good enough to hear a gnat fart from across the room. I know mine were killed long ago by too much rock n roll.... :eek:
LOL!!! Very funny. :D
 
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jostenmeat

Audioholic Spartan
I am sure this question has been asked before, I only want to know if say one speakers wire is 5ft and the other 10ft, would you actually be able to hear a difference. I hate coiling up a bunch of speaker wire on one side because it is much closer to the A/V reciever.
I've read that the signal in the wire is close to the speed of light. :eek: So, I wonder at what length we would have audible issues. Say.. 5 ft and 10,000 ft? 100,000 ft? :p
 
Adam

Adam

Audioholic Jedi
I've read that the signal in the wire is close to the speed of light. :eek: So, I wonder at what length we would have audible issues. Say.. 5 ft and 10,000 ft? 100,000 ft? :p
Transmission speed wouldn't be the issue - cable resistance would be. ;)
 
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jostenmeat

Audioholic Spartan
Transmission speed wouldn't be the issue - cable resistance would be. ;)
Good point, I thought about that too. Still, if impedance was not an issue, I do wonder at what length it would be an issue. Just completely theoretically of course. While Bob doesn't want to coil wire near the AV, I don't think we earthlings want him to coil his wire around the earth... :p
 
mtrycrafts

mtrycrafts

Seriously, I have no life.
Good point, I thought about that too. Still, if impedance was not an issue, I do wonder at what length it would be an issue. Just completely theoretically of course. While Bob doesn't want to coil wire near the AV, I don't think we earthlings want him to coil his wire around the earth... :p
Since a DBT showed that a 24ga wire was audibly different from 12ga and somewhat from 16ga, I'd say 300ft of 14ga may have the same resistance:D
or, something like that.
 

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