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Silver vs. Copper, Effect of length

What are your experiences with changes in speaker cable between silver and copper and longer vs. shorter lengths?

I recently replaced a pair of 2m Wireworld Eclipse III ( copper) Speaker cables with a pair of 1M Gold Eclipse III (silver). The new cables have about 120 hours on them and are not an improvement. Bass has been reduced and soundstage depth has diminished. The system is brighter and more detailed as expected with the switch, but it was not a good trade off. My
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garfish
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Ignatz, Sean; I'm sure you both know that conventional wisdom says you should use the shortest possible spkr. cables and long ICs if necessary. Both R. Vandersteen and S. McCormack recommend this. But I'll say that I really like my 14 ft. Syn. Res. spkr cables and 4 ft. Syn. Res. ICs.>BR<

But, I'm moving to bi-amping and can go to 3 ft. spkr cables, but 5M ICs. I'm planning on staying with my same brand ICs and spkr cables, just different lengths. Sean, any advise? BTW, I've come to respect your articulate and technically compelling posts. Thanks. Craig
garfish
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garfish
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........sorry about the gibberish. Craig
garfish
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Sean; thanks for the detailed and compelling argument for long speaker cables/short interconnects. I've seen some of them but not all. Now the dilemma..........thanks. Craig
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