Bought mono blocks, now spkr cables too long

just wondering what kind of answer are you looking for on something like this ?

keep your eye open for a shorter pair of cables?

Send it to the cable maker and get it chopped up. I did that long ago with some AudioQuest Volcano cable. A 12 foot cable was chopped into four 3 foot lengths. I was even able to sell them later to TMR.com when I no longer needed them.

+1 to the comment by @yyzsantabarbara . The manufacturer is the best one to help you.
In theory, shorter speaker cables are best, because the impedance of the cables influences the sound least. Whether that's audible -- or desirable -- to a given listener in a given system is a different, and entirely subjective, question.

So maybe its a message to those destined for monos. A mono plus is shorter cables.

live and learn.

next he will need longer interconnects.

Yes, i got longer xlr cables.

live and learn

What monos did you end up purchasing emergingsoul? I agree that you should have the company reterminate them if you like them. If that proves too expensive, you can certainly get a nice set of cables that short for a reasonable price.

Since electricity travels at nearly the speed of light. Its exact value is defined as 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300000 km/s, or 186000 mi/s). The only reason to shorten the cable is cosmetic. If you decide to go that route, hopefully, you can sell to someone else after you compare and keep the one you like the best. 

Cut them. 
 Have nice 8ga speaker wire, barely fits in my counterfeit Nakamichi plugs!

   Cut to fit. My 8ga are about 1.5 feet. Amp to speaker. 

@tom6897 What length of cable matters? When does the speed of light argument run out of steam? 20 feet? 500? 5miles? 

So long as the cables are shielded, coiling is not a big deal.  Huge problem with unshielded cable.  
You make a good point though that shorter cables are far more appropriate with mono-blocks. 

Get them cut to desired length as others have said and terminated properly. An 8ft pair is probably more common than a 12 ft so can probably sell the longer portion more easily. 

So maybe its a message to those destined for monos. A mono plus is shorter cables.

It is. The advantage of monoblocks is short speaker cables- so you get more impact and greater resolution without adding brightness.

The advantage of monoblocks is short speaker cables- so you get more impact and greater resolution without adding brightness.

     Agreed!

emergingsoul OP
I’m running a pair of XA 60.8s to the Magnepan 30.7

Just back from hols, keep the 12ft cables you have, as those XA60.8’s "could" be replaced in the future, as their lowish power in a big room to take those speakers may become a problem after a while for you, with those big mulit paneled Maggie 30.7’s.
https://www.magnepan.com/www/images/speakers/listening.30.7.jpg
And then you may then get a bigger poweramp, maybe stereo again, and you need the 12ft cables back.

Cheers George

@noromance with respect to a home audio system there is no length that could be considered too long. Sound and/or data is transmitted instantaneously. That's why you experience no delay when talking on the phone with someone across town or working on laptop sharing data on a zoom meeting with co-workers several states away.....etc. The speed of light is so freaking fast it is hard for most to comprehend. The signal can travel around the earth 7.75 times per second. Bet you can't measure a difference unless the cable has unusually high impedance. Doubtful if under 30 feet, in which case I feel very sorry for your wallet 😬

Speed of light ! Wowie.  So time should stand still and then no sound, and no mass either, means its just nothin.

quantumphysics explains it all.  So maybe cable coiling can be like a mini superconductor.  Need some way to detect those elusive neutrinos.  Explains speaker popping every so often i guess.

ill keep cables, of course.