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


Hello to all ...
This is my first time on this site so please pardon my "rookieness" at this. I am setting up a new system after being out of audio for years. My current setup demands that one speaker is relatively close to the components and the other not so much. In other words they will not be equidistant forcing me to have one speaker cable longer than the order a rough estimate is that one will be 8 feet and the other 16-20 feet.
The question is what is best:
1. Leave them different lengths
or
2. Make them the same length and hide the excess as best as possible on the closer speaker (would end up being coiled)

i understand that presumably the impedance would differ because of the length difference but would that be noticeable?? As I said I am no expert that’s why I came here to hear feedback from the experts out in audiogon land!
Thanks for your replies lets see what you all think........
qbndds
An interesting question and one which I have direct experience with. When I graduated from Kimber-garten ten years ago I purchased some Audio Note Lexus speaker cable. It was a 2.5m demo set at an attractive price. The cables are also a serious upgrade on my little Scott integrated vs the 8TC I used at the time. A few years later I wanted a set for my little Scott 299B that is in the 'den', so I ordered a set of 3.5m cables so I could have more room to move speakers about, The length and difference in sound quality is not as important in a satellite system. Several folks including Neli and Bob Neil told me there is no difference in sound, I hear a pretty big difference between the two sets of cables. The longer set has a lower sort of pitch or timbre that is easy to hear but hard to describe. I am quite happy with the Lexus cables given their match to my other components. Neli sent me a $3k set of Spx cables to try and they exposed serious flaws with my speakers and so the lesser priced copper cables sound better in my system, allowing minor flaws to remain hidden. hehe
Jim
healthman:

One take-away from all this for me is you can drive yourself nuts with all the "what-ifs" in the hi-fi arena at the end of the day if it works and sounds ok to YOU then DFWI! (you fill in the words)!
Speaking from personal experience using BJ10 in length of 12 and 6 ft respective I noticed a distinct coloration/distortion of the high frequencies on the speaker with the 12ft run. This distortion/coloration disappeared when using equal length of same cable. FWIW.