How important is it to have identical speaker cable length?

@jerryg123.  

“Even if engineers have said the values are so minute the human ear can not differentiate the capacitance or inductance.”


Especially if engineers say that. Going by “engineers” quoting variables is the best way to end up with a poor sounding system.

Truly great sounding systems come from fanatic attention to details. The little stuff adds up to be of major importance if you are working towards a truly great sounding system. You can get good sound out of a system made up of really good synergistic components. But for truly amazing sound you need carefully chosen cables, interconnects, power cords, cable lifters… tweaked room… etc. it is a question of what your end objective is. While you may not hear a difference outright in a difference in length, it will have a very small effect on the sound… it is a shortcut. Short cuts add up to a sub optimal. For me, instead of spending a couple hours trying to figure out if I can hear a difference, I’ll just go along with the recommendations from the professional reviewers and use equal lengths.