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

FYI. My dealer dropped by a Nordost Odin 2 set of interconnects ($20K). After a couple days I had to take them off because they sounded so good... I was starting to think about how I could put together the money to buy them... they were strung between $20K each components. I kept them much longer and I was going to figure out a way to do it. They were connected with traditional RCA connectors. 

I am certain the story would have been the same with their speaker cables... only they would have been much more expensive and the difference more pronounced. 

@rankaudio 

I've seen this room and I've walked this floor”

                                                        Leonard Cohen….

I wish you luck buddy. 

This brings up an interesting philosophical point: We are all, I think, on a quest for ever better sounding systems. If, like @ghdprentice relates, a person is in a space to discern and appreciate the positive impact a $20K accessory can have on furthering that quest, yet balks at spending the price they cost, then it could be argued that the skill and knowledge and expertise that person has built over the decades is actually detrimental to their enjoyment of their system and of the music being played on it, relative to a less evolved audiophile's.

A sort of a high-end riff on ignorance is bliss. Do we want to be right, or do we want to be happy?

 

I don't think that knowing there is better sounding gear out there, that we can't or won't afford, detracts at all from our enjoyment of what we have...