Cable lengths


I am a novice, yet must ask the question to budget my future upgrades if possible. I need 15ft speaker cable lengths to one electrostatic speaker and the other only a few feet. Can
I use differant length cables without damaging the sound quality.
electrostaticman

Showing 1 response by clueless

ELSman: Another point you may consider, if you have not already, is that wire to an ESL has special issues. An ESL acts like a capacitor (C) in the circuit (unlike conventional speakers)and has a transformer as part of the speaker which is an inductor(L). This can cause an L/C resonant circuit and may result in an unwanted peak at high frequencies. You do not want high inductance in your speaker wire to add to this problem. Inductance is largly determined by the area between the conductors (in the speaker wire). A few folk I know favor coaxial design.

I am not a big ESL person but there are several at this site, Detlof, for one, comes to mind. Maybe they can offer better suggestions if you are not already familiar with the issue.

Anyway, this may be as important as the length issue.

Cheers
I remain,