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Speaker cable Question?

I have a 8foot pair of Analysis plus oval 9 cables. I have a pair of JR-201 mono's. I don't realy need 8-feet of cable, 4-feet will do just fine. I want to go with a Cardas cable.
My question is do I need to stay with 8-feet do to the resistants of the length of the 8-foot cable or can I go with a 4-foot cable and still get the proper sound?
Is there a reason why people use 8-foot cables most of the time?
Thanks
Russ
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dan_ed
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And there are many who dispute Mr. Sprey's findings as being taken as some kind of definitive law. It may have very well been true for the system and cables used in his tests. I'm sure there are many of us who have found contradictions to this. So I really only object to the statement that "it is generally recommended". More acurately it should be "some recommend".
dan_ed
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I knew what you meant, Mitch. I've also heard that position from Mapleshade before. I'm also an EE, but to be honest the last people I would ask about cables are those from the electrical engineering community. All you get is a regirgitation of math equations we learned to model the electrical properties of stuff. Funny thing is none of those terms account for what we hear in the end. That's not to say there is no importance to the theory, but in my experience it does depend on system components and which cables one tries. Synergy is the most important term and that can only be measured by listening.

So have fun and experiment with as many cables as you can get your hands on.

Dan
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