About speaker cables..


Are speaker cables the shorter the better ??THANKS!!
jitmingl
Riz1, The preamp to amp IC xtion is at least an order of magnitude lower in voltage and thus more susceptible to EMI/RFI and other anomalies. Therefore keep the ICs short. Shielding is perhaps best left to another thread.

Putting the rack in the corner has worthwhile benefits as noted above [apart from acting as a non-bass trap with attendant resonance problems]. Keep the ICs and spkr cables short and use a low rack, or none at all.

That said, I run a modest 4M balanced pair made by my cable guru with proper attention paid to soldering & termination. Low cost, high rez [riz?] results. The tallish rack is near the corner but pulled out a few feet. The spkrs are well into the room as I am fortunate to have a 25' space to in which to play. Your mileage Will vary. Room treatments anyone?
The Quicksilver full function preamp is a good candidate for anyone that wants to run a long interconnect because of the preamp's low output impedance. The earlier Quicksilver preamp's output impedance was 12.5 ohms and the current model is only 1.5 ohms.