Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables


I was given a pair of premium quality speaker cables but they’re about 1ft short on each side and there’s no way to change it. If I added an extra 1ft of cheaper cable would it defeat the purpose?

rankaudio

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jonwolfpell     My guess is that the extra set of cable connectors to join two different sets of cables might be a big cause of sound degradation even if both sets of cables were the same. 

 +1. All connectors degrade the sound. IME, the speaker binding post (biggest metal mass) degrades SQ the most. Bigger and more robust binding post sounds the worse. Alex/WTA 

Rankaudio asked  ”how can they be faithful if they are plugged into a speaker terminal that has about 1ft of Monster cable behind it?"

Let's say there is a pair of speakers (have cheap zip cords inside) have same sounds and conditions. If the right speaker cable is replaced with a better sound (not more expensive) speaker cable, then the right speaker will sound better. It's simple. Any questions? Alex/Wavetouch audio.