Transient vs. Analysis Plus


My system is configured with fairly long speaker cable runs (approx. 10m) due to the physical layout of twin parlors in an old house.  I'm currently using Transient cables with 12-2 bricks at the speaker end.  McIntosh MC 275 amp/ Golden Ear Triton One speakers, which I'm hoping to upgrade to One Reference.  I read in an informative thread awhile back that it might be more effective to shorten the speaker cable runs and lengthen the interconnect from preamp to amp.  I could position the power amp below the floor in the basement between the speakers and reduce the cable length to 2m.  Any thoughts there?  Also curious to compare Transient to Analysis Plus cables.  Thanks.
rickisme

Showing 1 response by terry9

Long interconnects are the usual practice. The downside of that is radio frequency interference, or RF; so if you live in a rich RF environment, your cables may pick up interference from the strongest signals. The best ways to combat that are:
1. First class interconnects, based on Canare Starquad microphone cable, which has both superb shielding and RF-suppressing topology; or
2. First class speaker cable, that is, two parallel ribbons of conductor, separated by insulation, and bonded together to form a thicker ribbon. This reduces inductance at the expense of capacitance. A good brand is Goertz, which is not cheap, except by audiophile standards.

As a rule of thumb, capacitance matters for interconnect, not for speaker cable - inductance matters for speaker cable, not interconnect. That’s the physics of it, not the marketing or the brand loyalty. Good luck!