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Uneven speaker cable lengths?

I switched back to Vandersteens a while back and am trying to extract the last bit out of the setup. I have been using Cardas Clear with great success. However Clear can not be biwired, and Clear Beyond is out of my range.

Would I notice a difference if I use a 2m pair on one side and a 3m pair on the other side.

I am currently trying Clear Reflection biwired, and the biwired setup is an improvement in many ways. But the Clear is more to my liking.
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kijanki
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Imaging and coherence are very important to me. Would you replace just one of the tweeters with the best one you can afford or replace one of the monoblocks with much better one. Should it still bring improvements because "one could produce results that are BETTER than having both of them ... equal"?
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kijanki
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Many people will tell you that it won't make any difference. On the other hand if you believe that cables affect sound then most likely this effect will be proportional to the length of the cable. I might not be able to hear the difference but I would never shorten the cable - it will be difficult to sell.
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kijanki
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This will influence the damping factor of your amplifier, which will, again in theory influence the ability of your amplifier to have control over your loudspeakers, wihich would be a little diffirent for both loudspeakers.

Difference of 1m both ways equals roughly to 6ft. Asssuming 14 gauge wire 6ft x 0.004ohm/ft=0.024ohm. Impedance of speaker itself is mostly resistive. Assuming 3ohm for 4ohm speaker, change in overall impedance is 0.8%.

Additional meter of wire will add inductance of 3uH causing about 0.4ohm of additional inductive reactance at 20kHz. Again, it might not be audible since tweeter's impedance increases with frequency.
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kijanki
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Agree, the difference is very small. Could my love for symmetry come from watching too many episodes of Monk?
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