What is better? longer interconnects or spkr cable


I have to go behind a 55" wide screen TV and a 19" rack to get to one of my speakers. I have 2 Bryston 7BSST mono blocks and want to connect my Line 1 Sonic Frontiers Pre-amp using balanced XLR interconnects. I havn't bought anything yet. I'm looking for suggestions on whether I should use long interconnects or stack my 7BSSTs and use long 15" speaker cables?
fanofsens
I've studied this problem analytically. The results show that with TYPICAL amps and preamps (SS) and cables that are in the same quality range that the optimum ratio of speaker cables to IC's is between 3:1 and 1:1. Typically you cannot go wrong with 2:1. See the Audio FAQ page of my website for the analysis:
http://www.empiricalaudio.com
If you have poorly designed speaker cables that are of a high nominal impedance, you may make gains by going to long runs of balanced interconnects and keeping the speaker cable short. Otherwise, i would suggest using short interconnects and long speaker cable or a combo that is a median point.

Just bare in mind that long interconnects typically have little to no resale value where the opposite is true of speaker cables. I have purchased 20+ foot pairs of interconnects for amounts equal to or less than a standard 1 meter pair would cost. I was able to do this because the seller could not give them away. Having done that, i cut them to the lengths i needed and re-terminated, making out like a bandit. In some cases, i was actually able to sell the left-over cabling that i did not need for what i paid for the whole lot. Sean
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