Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables

Before you mess up a premium quality set of cables, buy some Amazon brand 12 gauge speaker wire. A lot of people can’t hear the difference.

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. 

audphile1, 

Just like any other cable denier you continue to try and stir something up.

I’m good with your honesty and I’m not completely in disagreement that cables can make a difference, just so you’re aware. For example, I recently had a situation with some idle hum which was occurring because of shielding issues with a particular pair of RCA cables. I used a better shielded pair of RCA’s and the idle noise was removed.

With regard to the demos, I also agree that certain good tracks like Malia can disguise what speakers are doing. You can see I also discuss it here.

https://youtu.be/K29LPl9LF4I?si=Nb4REIWUw8OSa3z_

I also don’t disagree about some issues I had with how the 1.7i’s sounded which you can also see I shared here. https://youtu.be/6ZIPehgRBpU?si=a-9orchXR7Uwvgyf

There’s nothing wrong if audiophiles would like to spend some bucks on some nice looking cables, I have a couple buddies who do, however, you have not answered my comment and I don’t think you can come up with any answer to this question.  Even if the cables were $20,000 as you asked, how can they be faithful if they are plugged into a speaker terminal that has about 1ft of Monster cable behind it?

Here’s a video that may resonate better with your ears. 

https://youtu.be/oIPwxkGI_Qc?si=bUamXRSXQPo03P34

@audphile1 Please define “faithful”.

Odds are overwhelming that 1 ft of added cable of equal or greater gauge will not add any appreciable resistance or capacitance to any cable to change the resulting sound.  The only thing the OP has not defined is how long the original cable is.  If the OP is talking about being 1ft short on a 3 ft premium cable (amps right next to the speaker) then there is a high chance that something will change.  If the OP is using long cables then a 1ft add, again, would have negligible impact. 

Ultimately, as I said earlier, the blocker is really what’s being used by the speaker manufacturer.  Many times it’s no better than 24 gauge bell wire. 

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