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Long interconnect or speaker cable

My room configuration requires that my rack is off to the side of my speakers. This means I need to run 20 feet of speaker cable (Wireworld) from my Mc mono blocks. This makes high end speaker cable cost prohibitive.

I was thinking I could move the amps next to the speakers, have short higher quality speaker cables, and then a long run of moderately priced XLR interconnects from my preamp.

So, all things being equal, what’s better for SQ, a long run of lesser XLRs or speaker cables?

 

w123ale

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@w123ale Wrote:

So, all things being equal, what’s better for SQ, a long run of lesser XLRs or speaker cables?

In my experience, a long run of lesser XLRs! See tutorial below:

Mike

https://www.ranecommercial.com/legacy/pdf/ranenotes/Sound_System_Interconnection.pdf

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@passfan70 Wrote:

 If you are going to keep them super short, be sure to use a smaller awg cable as to reduce signal to noise. It’s an issue some powered speakers can run into. Cables are like tone controls, longer and shorter runs of identical speaker cable can sometimes sound different on the same set up. 

I don't think a powered speaker requires a speaker cable, a powered speaker has the amp(s) installed inside the speaker cabinet. 😎

Mike

 

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