Long interconnect or short Speaker Cables

Tvad: Yes, I'm aware that A-C supplies Zobel circuits with their Goertz speaker cables. I still recommend building your own from quality components, as:
1. the resistor and capacitor that A-C supplies are not very good quality;
2. the value of the resistor in A-C's Zobel circuit is not optimal. I base this on several independent reviews of A-C's speaker cables. Here is the link to one review that was published on the Audioholics web site: http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/audioprinciples/interconnects/speakercable2p2.php

I've publicly recommended / been quite vocal about the use of longer speaker cables / shorter interconnects for 10+ years on various internet forums. Glad to see that some of these "expert" cable and equipment manufacturers are finally catching up : )

Having said that, you really have to look at the type of gear being used and the cabling that you have or plan to purchase. In many instances, longer interconnects may be less detrimental to the sound / performance of the system as compared to using longer speaker cabling. This takes into account the average loading characteristics of the equipment being used, the nominal impedances of most of the cabling on the market and the stability of each component being linked together.

Most of this has to do with the fact that most speaker cabling being sold & used is "crapola" due to being less than competently designed and / or improperly implimented. It is for this reason that using a shorter length lessens the detrimental side-effects / minimizes the potential for sonic degradation. If one consistently has to resort to something along this lines, they've obviously got other problems elsewhere and this is "band-aiding" the wound. Sean
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PS... This takes into account that NONE of the cabling in the system is extremely long. Very long runs of ANY type of cabling can only be considered detrimental and should be avoided whenever possible.

Not only are the A-C Zobels free, they will integrate them into the cable for you, which is what they did on my MI-2.

They included them with my MI-2's and I didn't use them at first and had no problems. After reading of "potential" problems I intserted them just to be safe and they have absolutely no effect on the sound. With these jumpers high capacitance is a non issue.

BTW, I bought this cable after numerous recommendations and couldn't be happier. It really is a great cable.

I did read with interest the review discussing the Zobels as posted by Sdcampbell. I just have to wonder if it truly is accurate and even if it were if I can hear the difference. I'm not an engineer, but I have to think the people at A-C know what they're doing considering how good this cable sounds in my system. Perhaps Sean can chime in on the subject as he steered me towards these cables and has more of an understanding on the technical side of this than I do.

BTW - I ordered a 2m pair of A-C Triode Quartz Silver with the pure silver RCAs to try out. I needed a longer pair of ICs to reach another amp I want to put in my system so I thought these might work nicely since I really am a fan of short ICs and longer speaker runs. I'm not sure 2m qualify as a long run though, they're just longer than what I'm used to having in my system.