What is better? longer interconnects or spkr cable


I have to go behind a 55" wide screen TV and a 19" rack to get to one of my speakers. I have 2 Bryston 7BSST mono blocks and want to connect my Line 1 Sonic Frontiers Pre-amp using balanced XLR interconnects. I havn't bought anything yet. I'm looking for suggestions on whether I should use long interconnects or stack my 7BSSTs and use long 15" speaker cables?
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If you have poorly designed speaker cables that are of a high nominal impedance, you may make gains by going to long runs of balanced interconnects and keeping the speaker cable short. Otherwise, i would suggest using short interconnects and long speaker cable or a combo that is a median point.

Just bare in mind that long interconnects typically have little to no resale value where the opposite is true of speaker cables. I have purchased 20+ foot pairs of interconnects for amounts equal to or less than a standard 1 meter pair would cost. I was able to do this because the seller could not give them away. Having done that, i cut them to the lengths i needed and re-terminated, making out like a bandit. In some cases, i was actually able to sell the left-over cabling that i did not need for what i paid for the whole lot. Sean
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