25 foot subwoofer cable

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baneling

Audioholic Intern
hi, is a 25 foot subwoofer cable too long if my front L and R speaker cable is 15 feet?
 
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shadyJ

Speaker of the House
Staff member
The length of the subwoofer cable won't effect anything. The difference in distance from the subs vs speakers to your listening position might have an impact, so make sure your AVR (assuming you are using one) sets that distance correctly.
 
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baneling

Audioholic Intern
the sub will be about 2 feet away from the left main speaker.
 
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shadyJ

Speaker of the House
Staff member
You won't have to worry about setting distance in that case.
 
B

baneling

Audioholic Intern
so if the subwoofer is 2 feet away from the front left speaker but the difference in the wire is 10 feet, isn't that the same as the subwoofer being 10 feet away from the front left speaker? I'm knew to all this.
 
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shadyJ

Speaker of the House
Staff member
The length of the cables makes no difference for speakers or subwoofers. The cable could be 10 miles long, and the length of the cable still wouldn't matter at all (although the electrical resistance would matter for that extreme length of cable). The voltage signal travel through the cable at something like 80% of the speed of light in a vacuum, if I recall correctly, so the signal is traveling through the wire at approximately 240,000 km per second. Compare that to the speed of sound which is emitted from your speakers and subwoofers: 343 meters per second, which is much slower and will therefore make a far greater difference in the overall sound if they are emitted at different distances.

The short version is electrical signals travel too fast through cables to make an audible difference, but the distance from the speakers and subs to your ears might make a difference if they are too widely spaced. But in your case with the subwoofer only 2 feet away from the speakers, that is not going to make a difference.
 
tyhjaarpa

tyhjaarpa

Audioholic Field Marshall
Like said it won't matter. Even if it did and you have modern avr with room correction it would correct the possible delays.
 
B

baneling

Audioholic Intern
Thanks everyone! By the way, i have an Onkyo txnr 646 for my avr, polk audio rtia3 for my fronts and i just got the BIC f12 for my sub
 
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Jerry Smith

Audiophyte
You don't need to worry as wire doesn't matter for the subwoofer.
 
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