12 ft pair of thick speakers cables?? Can they be cut downt to a 6 ft pair??

shadorne wrote,

"Cable reflection can be ignored at audio frequencies (very low) and at these short lengths. The wavelengths are so long compared to the physical dimensions that reflections can be considered instantaneous at both ends and do not alter the electrical signal delivered or the output of the amplifier in any way.

Reflection and consequently impedance matching becomes important for high frequencies like your cable TV or over great distances like power transmission lines."

Hmmmmm.... So, you're saying we can ignore RFI/EMI too because those frequencies are not in the audio frequency range? Lol Methinks you're confusing electromagnetic waves with acoustic waves. 

Al, thanks much for giving your point of view on this matter of speaker cable length. However I think I’ll stick with Bob Crump and John Curl. In fact I find the cable wraps from Shun Mook and Highwire do in fact work as advertised, that there is reflection in all cables of any length. Or so it would seem based on many years of experience. I also owned Bob Crump’s speaker cables which were around 5 feet long. And spectacular sounding, like all Crump’s and Curl’s stuff.

I don't put much stock necessarily in what I read on the Internet. Lol I do not fault anyone else from making judgements based on what others say on the Internet.

I seem to recall Fulton cables were much longer. Uh, oh, from somewhere in cyberspace,

"The Fulton Gold cables were heavy too. I have a pair of 28 ft of these cables and its weight like 40 lbs.!!! Not very good full range, its strenght is in the bass and the lower bass. I planned to use it in the low of my biamp speakers but it is just to damn thick and I still try to find way to hook up this cables!!!"

jperry
Geoffkait, I don’t know about John Curl or Bob Crump, but that was a belief of Bob Fulton.

Well, off the top of my head I’d say that would certainly lend credence to the idea, no?

Wasn't it John Curl and Bob Crump who opined that speaker cables should be a specific length, around 5 feet, perhaps to minimize reflections traveling down the cable, something like that?

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