Does unequal speaker wire length matter?


My amp is not located centrally between my speakers. Due to the layout of my listening area, the amp is about 10 feet from one speaker, and adjacent to the other - and this will not change. I am currently using two 4-meter cables, but one of them need only be about 1 meter. I am looking to upgrade my cables, could I get away with unequal lengths and save a good bit of money?
ddcrews

Showing 1 response by pinkus

Give me a frigging break ! What BS advice. It will
not make any difference, and will definitely not be
perceived by the human ear. At what speed does the signal
travel down the wire ? Perhaps 0.5c ~ 0.85, where c=speed of light, 186 000 miles/sec. That is the signal travels at
102300 miles/sec ~ 1581000 miles/sec. Even if one wire is longer than the other one by 10 feet, the difference in time for the signal to arrive at the speaker would be 0.00000002 secs. Damn, you boys have incredible hearing !