Speaker cable length


I have Cary tube amps and Harbeth speakers and I am kind of limited as to the placement of my components in my listening room. The optimum positioning for best sound would require a 27 foot speaker cable on one side and an 18 foot cable on the opposite side. Are these runs to long and could they harm my equipment or somehow lower sound quality?
markus1299

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I wonder why nobody mentioned inductance of the straight wire. It runs in order of 0.5uH/ft and for 27feet of cable it is 13.5uH. At the frequency of 20kHz it represent impedance of 1.7 ohm. Use even lengths for the left and right speakers.

Resistance of the cable is less important - inductor in series with the woofer has around 0.08 Ohm (limits DF to 100). For that reason don't use gauge 10. It won't help and you run into risk of frequency smear since skin effect in copper, as far as I know, starts at about gauge 20 with 20kHz frequency.