My fronts are are all equal, but I think this is hard for me to justify, unless the electronics do change. Changing the speaker wire a foot changes by a factor related to speed of light. Moving a speaker changes by a factor of he speed of sound. Too lazy to do the math, until the cable effects (resistance, inductance if you "spool it" to shorten one, which is really bad idea) the actual sound, timing wise a spool of wire should make as less difference than moving a speaker an inch, so having maybe a 50% difference in cable length (making that number up) hardly seems important. So if Bomarc is correct, and he should be, close should be fine. Anthing else is likely the "psychoacuotics" as one poster called it. But, I keep em equal anyway - I am mostly psycho....
Unequal cable lengths for home theater????
I have 7 speakers and a sub in my theater. Each pair of speakers has an equal length pair of speaker cables. I was re-doing some other wires, and I noticed that I could really clean up the rat's nest behind the big-screen TV if I didn't have to worry about equal speaker cable lengths. All of my cables in the theater are home made Canary cable and WBT connectors, so I can easily make changes. Will I be sorry if I do this?????