I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my front
left and right speakers be the exact same length? or if they are not, what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?


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"boot hill" wrote in message
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I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my
front
left and right speakers be the exact same length? or if they are not,
what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?

I think it would only make a difference in the unlikely event that the wire
were so small and the length of one side so long that a large difference in
resistance existed. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

Wylie Williams

"Wylie Williams" wrote

"boot hill" wrote in message
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I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my
front
left and right speakers be the exact same length? or if they are not,
what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?

None if you can avoid it.

I think it would only make a difference in the unlikely event that the
wire
were so small and the length of one side so long that a large difference
in
resistance existed. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it.

Slightly disagree. Why take the chance when you are only talking about a few
dollars difference.

AFAIK the Monster xp line is 16 gauge, so this may make length matching even
more important.

"boot hill" wrote in message
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I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my
front
left and right speakers be the exact same length?

It's not critical at all, unless the lengths are different by 50 ft or so.
IOW, there has to be a big enough difference to cause a 20% difference in
resistance.

or if they are not, what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?


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Michael McKelvy wrote:

It's not critical at all, unless the lengths are different by 50 ft
or so. IOW, there has to be a big enough difference to cause a 20%
difference in resistance.

Hi Michael,

If resistivity is related to the length of the wire and the thickness of the
wire, wouldn't it make sense to keep them the same?

Also, if it did involve a fifty foot run (or more), would you be happy with
16gauge wire?

I know I wouldn't.

I've conducted a bias controlled listening test where a system using an 8-foot
pair of networked high-end speaker cables were sonically indistingushable from
16 gauge zip cord with a 6-foot section was used for one channel and a 25-foot
section for the other.


"Michael McKelvy" wrote:

boot hill" wrote in message
...
I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my
front
left and right speakers be the exact same length?

It's not critical at all, unless the lengths are different by 50 ft or so.
IOW, there has to be a big enough difference to cause a 20% difference in
resistance.

or if they are not, what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?

"Nousaine" wrote in message
...
I've conducted a bias controlled listening test where a system using an
8-foot
pair of networked high-end speaker cables were sonically indistingushable
from
16 gauge zip cord with a 6-foot section was used for one channel and a
25-foot
section for the other.


Shocking! Absolutely shocking!

Did you use Arnii's "system"?

Cheers,

Margaret

In article ,
boot hill wrote:

I have an onkyo home theatre receiver and I'm using monster xp speaker
wire. how critical is it that the lengths of my speaker wires for my front
left and right speakers be the exact same length? or if they are not, what
would be an appropriate difference? 5 feet? 10 feet?

It's not very critical.

5'-10' would probably be fine.

--
Matthew Weigel
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the contents of the post are not

Mr. Middius said:

Nousaine said:

test ... sonically indistingushable

That settles that, then. Mission accomplished!

Well, that depends what your definition of indistingushable is. And whether or
not you can say it five times fast.

Boon