Your short speaker cable experiences


I'm going to compare my present speaker cables with the shortest runs I can find -- perhaps as short as 2.5 feet from mono block to speaker.

I'm curious if anyone tried comparing their longer speaker cables against short runs of other ones and whether it made a difference or not. 

What changed? Did it cause you to reposition things?

Happy to hear stories. No trolling about "wire is wire," please. 

hilde45

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@audioguy85 What problem are you referring to? I'm asking for people who have compared longer and shorter runs. You doubt there is an audible difference, but may I ask if you actually tried comparing things or are you just paper doubting?

@carlsbad 
Thanks for your experience. I'm thinking of going raw wire as my connector.
@yogiboy @mike_in_nc  Thanks. I'm open to finding out the same result. The closure of knowing will be worth it!
@dekay  Interesting experiment. I'll try that next. I'm going with bare ends for sure.

Very nice replies, folks. Keep em' coming. I'm going to experiment with 3ft soon (vs. 8 feet). 

My experiment is going to be with Cardas 101 bulk wire, 14 awg. I will try it at 3' and then try bi-wiring with two 3' runs. 

I run three subs, so I'll turn those off during the comparisons. They take care of bass issues pretty nicely, so I will be listening in other regions of the audio spectrum for differences.