Length of speaker cable effect bass response?


Due to my room and wife's decorating tastes, I am using 30' runs of bluejeanscable for my speaker cable. It is biwired. However, I seem to be missing some bass response compared to when I had 8' runs of speaker cable by Tara Labs, biwired shot gun. Is the 30' run too long to carry bass information? Thanks
tbromgard

Showing 1 response by almarg

I second HifiTime's question. If the speakers are wired out of phase relative to one another, or if the low frequency and mid/hi frequency bi-wire connections to either speaker are reversed relative to one another, there will certainly be major audible consequences including attenuation of the bass.

I doubt that the length is excessive enough, or the gauge small enough, to result in attenuation of the bass. The resistance of a 60 foot round-trip run of 14 gauge wire is approximately 0.15 ohms. That might be marginally significant if the impedance of the speaker at bass frequencies drops down very low, but my impression is that most or all Usher models do not do that.

Regards,
-- Al