Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables


I was given a pair of premium quality speaker cables but they’re about 1ft short on each side and there’s no way to change it. If I added an extra 1ft of cheaper cable would it defeat the purpose?

rankaudio

Totally defeat the purpose it would change everythung that was improved that 1 ft 

destroys the purity of the upper ends wire purity, dielectric  shielding if Litz wire even more so  and the geometry of the wires build .

It very well may not make a difference, but because it's "rigged", you might always wonder "what if"...

Before you mess up a premium quality set of cables, buy some Amazon brand 12 gauge speaker wire. A lot of people can’t hear the difference.

My guess is that the extra set of cable connectors to join two different sets of cables might be a big cause of sound degradation even if both sets of cables were the same. 

audphile1

Just like any other cable denier you continue to try and stir something up.

 

I’m good with your honesty and I’m not completely in disagreement that cables can make a difference, just so you’re aware. For example, I recently had a situation with some idle hum which was occurring because of shielding issues with a particular pair of RCA cables. I used a better shielded pair of RCA’s and the idle noise was removed.

With regard to the demos, I also agree that certain good tracks like Malia can disguise what speakers are doing. You can see I also discuss it here.

https://youtu.be/K29LPl9LF4I?si=Nb4REIWUw8OSa3z_

I also don’t disagree about some issues I had with how the 1.7i’s sounded which you can also see I shared here. https://youtu.be/6ZIPehgRBpU?si=a-9orchXR7Uwvgyf

There’s nothing wrong if audiophiles would like to spend some bucks on some nice looking cables, I have a couple buddies who do, however, you have not answered my comment and I don’t think you can come up with any answer to this question.  Even if the cables were $20,000 as you asked, how can they be faithful if they are plugged into a speaker terminal that has about 1ft of Monster cable behind it?

Here’s a video that may resonate better with your ears. 

https://youtu.be/oIPwxkGI_Qc?si=bUamXRSXQPo03P34