Speaker cable lengths doe it matter they are not equal???

When I upgraded my Transparent cables recently. I was told to keep the lengths the same.
But, later thinking, I was confused. If the network boxes are supposed to overcome wire resistance/discrepancies, then why could they not make them so that the shorter and longer lengths have equal properties?
Almarg, if you are listening, what are your thoughts on this?

Hi Bob,

As far as I am aware Transparent and the other makers of cables that incorporate network boxes haven’t ever published schematics or other detailed information defining the circuits that are in those boxes. Without that kind of information, and conceivably even with it, I can’t provide a meaningful answer to your question.

But in any event no such box will convert the wire that is being used into a transmission medium that is theoretically ideal (i.e., zero resistance, inductance, capacitance, dielectric absorption, etc., at all frequencies that could conceivably be relevant), and so the same kinds of considerations that have been stated above for boxless cables would seem to apply, albeit perhaps to a different degree. As well as the same dependence on opinion, since as I said earlier it can be presumed that "no comprehensive body of experimental data exists on this question, encompassing a broad range of systems, rooms, listeners, and combinations of cable lengths."

Also, although it doesn’t necessarily directly relate to your question, I’ll add FWIW that I would imagine that in at least some of those cases the values of the parts in the boxes (ohms, pf, etc.) might be chosen differently for different lengths of the particular type of cable.

Best regards,
-- Al

For what its worth I am considering runiing "anti-cables" with this system they specifically ask:
"length of run to left speaker.....length of run to right speaker..."
They state that with their cables (solid copper) as long as the ratio between the cables is no more than 2:1 "with their cables it makes no difference".

So as I prefaced my intro to this thread and being a "rookie" it seems that this is one of those issues to which there seems to be no definitive answer. My original thought/belief was that due to differences in the impedance of the wire they should be kept equal, however, given the necessity to coil the excess wire to the closer speaker that seems to be a greater issue.  So as it stands today I am leaning towards two different lengths as per the manufacturer's (as of this writing Anti-Cables)recommendation.  I am considering Morrow as well and will contact them for their opinion.

Its been fun listening to all your varied opinions as a "greenhorn" ultimately as in art I guess beauty is in the "eye of the beholder" so the proverbial pendulum will continue to swing between equal lengths ..... same length!

Thanks to all!

Qbndds, you are welcome. It was a nice thread.
Another FWIW, I would get a ’liitle extra’ length so that you have some ’wiggle room’. I can’t tell you how many times when I tried to keep things short, I ended up having more problems connecting components that had to be shifted to a convenient location just to plug them in.
HTH
Bob

gdnrbob-
thanks for the heads up will definitely keep that in mind