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Does unequal speaker wire length matter?

My amp is not located centrally between my speakers. Due to the layout of my listening area, the amp is about 10 feet from one speaker, and adjacent to the other - and this will not change. I am currently using two 4-meter cables, but one of them need only be about 1 meter. I am looking to upgrade my cables, could I get away with unequal lengths and save a good bit of money?
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eldartford
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FWIW...One ohm of wire resistance is worth almost exactly 2dB when driving a 4 ohm speaker.

AWG #10 wire is 0.001018 ohms per foot. Ten extra feet of wire is worth 0.01018 ohms, and the resulting attenuation is 0.02 dB.
eldartford
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When recordings are made, some of the many microphones that are usually used have much longer cables than others. Does this matter?
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