1 meter speaker cables


My speaker cables are only 1m in length. I have two questions that I hope the collective experience of this community could help answer.

1. At 1m length do the differences that may be present at longer lengths of say 2.5m become less noticeable?

2. Has anyone demo’ed 1m speaker cables and if so, where?
 

Thanks in advance for your insights.

 

tosnc

Showing 1 response by mitch2

I used 1M long speaker cables for years.  In my experience, and in my system, I could indeed hear differences in 1M long speaker cables. I actually have a variety of 1M speaker cables that I have compared and the sonic comparisons between given types of cables are similar to what I hear when comparing the same types of cables in my current set-up, where speaker cables are 2 to 2.5M long. 

One way to reduce the effects of resistance, capacitance, and inductance in a cable is to reduce the length of the cable.  Therefore, the sonic effect of 1M long speaker cables should theoretically be less than for longer speaker cables, although the difference may not be easily discernable.