Will a 30 feet long speaker cable cause problems?


My B&W 602S3 bookshelf speakers are located 30 feet away from a Rotel RSX-1055. Will this distance cause any degradation? Also what gauge speaker cables are recommended for such lengths?
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Showing 1 response by tok20000

30' will not sound as good as 10' of the same cable.
At 30' even using the highest quality speaker cables you are going to get roll off at frequency extremes.

Using lesser quality speaker cables, you will get even more roll off.

I would suggest trying if there is any way you can to shorten the speaker cable run. If you are stuck at 30', you will just have to live with some roll off.

KF