Long interconnects or speaker cables?

This is especially true if you can use balanced (XLR) interconnects. Knowing where I'd like to place my speakers and what speaker cable lengths this would require, I chose my equipment because it could accommodate long (XLR) interconnects and allow short speaker cables.

I am just curious but has any one tried to get the amp's close enough to the speakers to try a gold/silver bus bar? I can not due it with my set up but would be interested in the performance even if it turns out to be bad.

I thought as everyone here that short speaker cable and long interconnects are better then the opposite. I think I will retract my previous statement: I went from 1.5 meter long Eclipse III to 3.0 meter long Eclipse III. Without changing anything else, the longer cable sounded much much better. I found out that Pierre Sprey at Mappleshaderecords do not advocate the use of very short speaker cables. He suggests that any speaker cable will sound best between 8 to 16 feet. Too short a cable or too long and you will lose. My last trial tends to support his view. I will try his Double Helix speaker cable...

Samir. My experience with the Wireworld speaker cables is that they are of at least moderate capacitance. I wonder if the longer length is therefore giving you a more relaxed and distant sound (or to put it another way, a less forward sound) and that this is what you prefer? Can you describe what you like about the longer length and the amp you are using? I am interested because I have had the opposite experience when shortening Wireworld Gold Eclipse - ie. I liked shorter lengths, but this was because I preferred the greater immediacy.

Speaker connections are low impedance and therefore immune to interference. Make the speaker wires long and the interconnects short.