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best long connection?

Hi all,

My second system will run (mono) speakers throughout the house. The central speaker-wire patch panel is about 30' (as the cable runs) from my sources. The amp and pre-amp support only RCA (unbalanced) connections. A converter will combine the stereo pre-amp outputs into mono inputs for the amp.

Which of these cabling choies might produce the best results?

1. Place pre-amp with the sources, the mono converter with the amp, and run long stereo interconnects between the pre-amp and amp.

2. Place pre-amp and mono converter with the sources, and run a single mono interconnect to the amp.

3. Put everything with the sources, and run a long speaker wire to the speaker patch panel.

Thanks for any help!
ehart

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ehart OP
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No response. This usually means I've been too wordy! The question boils down to: is it better to do a long interconnect between pre-amp and amp, or longer speaker cables?

In general, it seems the long interconnect is recommended here, but I wanted to see if a 30' unbalanced interconnect is really OK.

thanks,

Eric
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