Does unequal speaker wire length matter?

Ignore the above advice and use the unequal length cables. According to the logic of the above posts the unequal lengths can possibly result in a slight image shift towards the speaker with the shorter cable. If this is true, then it can be easily corrected with the use of a balance control.

I was wondering the same thing again, and I know most audiophiles will say it is a no no, but if I do not really do critical listening, can I reallyhear the difference? Has anyone tried different lengths and actually heard the difference? Most don;t even have room treatments so how much issue can this really cause?

Please let us know your experience with different lenghts and Happy Listening.

While I wouldn't bet money I could hear a difference, I agree their could be some resistance issues , and factor in if you try an upgrade your speaker cables in the future, you will have a "tough sell" on your old un equal length pair of speaker cables.

Give me a frigging break ! What BS advice. It will
not make any difference, and will definitely not be
perceived by the human ear. At what speed does the signal
travel down the wire ? Perhaps 0.5c ~ 0.85, where c=speed of light, 186 000 miles/sec. That is the signal travels at
102300 miles/sec ~ 1581000 miles/sec. Even if one wire is longer than the other one by 10 feet, the difference in time for the signal to arrive at the speaker would be 0.00000002 secs. Damn, you boys have incredible hearing !

Not every speaker cable manufacturer states that each leg of the cable be the same length. Alpha-Core states on its web site that their Goertz speaker cable does not have to be of equal length on each leg. My own personal experience has been that as long as the cables are relatively short (less than 15 feet), you will hear no audible difference between unequal lengths, PROVIDED the speaker cable has relatively low impedance.

High impedance in speaker cables causes frequency shifts, so it is possible that some "golden ears" could hear this frequency change with high impedance speaker cables. Of course, if a speaker cable has a high impedance, it's not particularly well suited to its task, and you'd be better off with another kind that follows good electrical design principles.