Room rearrangement. Cable question


I'm thinking of moving my large box furniture rack from its current position between my speakers to a location along a sidewall. The idea is to minimize speaker reflections and refractions off the center-positioned rack.
This leaves me with two options:
1) Running longer speaker cables  (15-20 feet) from the amp's new location on the sidewall to the speakers, or
2) Leaving the amp on the floor between the speakers (and putting it on a low platform), then running long interconnects from the preamp to the amp and using short speaker cables.
My Pass Labs XA25 amp does not have balanced connections.
Thoughts? Feeling? Speculations?
Thanks.
kolledog

Showing 1 response by mijostyn

Kolledog, it depends on the impedance of your loudspeakers. If your speakers are 4 ohms or less you are probably better off with shorter speaker wires even though your system is not balanced. I always ran long unbalanced interconnects to mono amps behind the speakers and never had any trouble. I would use a cable like Canare DA 206 which has twisted pair inner conductors of heavier gauge then you attach the shield on the preamp side only.
If your speakers are 8 ohms or higher longer speaker cables will work fine as long as you keep the gauge low enough. I would say 12 or lower. I like Kimber Kable either 8 or 12 TC.