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Speaker cable vs. interconnect cable length

I am faced with either running long interconnect cables from the receiver to the external amp with short speaker cables or long speaker cables with short interconnects. The total length will be about 25 feet. Which scenario would be better?

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newbee
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Pabelson, LOL! Better watch out, you will be banned from audiophiledom for using common sense.

ICSI, normally longer IC's and shorter cables. Unless you are using a passive preamp the cables will have a more easily audiable difference. The shorter the cable the less the difference.
newbee
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I agree with Eldartford, with SS it shouldn't be a problem. I have a high gain tube amp with an output impedence of 600 ohms. I use 25' IC's and can detect no loss of information when compared to 3' IC's. Just keep the IC's away from anything which might introduce noise, such as parallel power cords, transformers, etc.
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