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Max length of IC's? Long IC's vs short SW

What's better sonically?

a) To run 4 foot unbalanced interconnects between my preamp and amp and 32 foot runs of speaker wire,

or

b) To run 9 - 12 foot unbalanced interconnects between my preamp and map and 12 foot runs of speaker wire?

Also: what's the max length I can go on unbalanced interconnects before I run into issues of resistance, inductance, capacitance, etc. that would significantly affect the sound?

Is there much of a difference between 9 foot unbalanced and 12 foot or 15 unbalanced?

Thanks.

Laurence
ldworet

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marakanetz
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Most likely the long unbalanced interconnects must be shielded(RFI safe) and it dictates higher per-unit capacitance. How much of the trebble will be rolled off? Probably not too significant. May even be more beneficial to the listener, but I 'grew up' from having unbalanced interconnects and use only balanced between components regardless of distance.
I can share on how to convert any unbalanced component to balanced.
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