Speaker wire - equal length or shortest?


If you have to make the choice between running wire of equal length to your speakers or to run the shortest run possible what should you do? My components are located
on the side of my listening room. The distance to the far speaker is twice the distance to the close one (roughly 35 feet vs 20 feet) What should I do? (re-locating my equipment or speakers is not an option at this point)
a71spud
Actually, the lower signals in an IC interact less with the wire than the higher signals. So definately use a longer IC if you can put your amp near(between) your speakers and then use the shortest speaker cables possible. Group delay, where lower frequencies can move more slowly through the cable, is more of a problem for speaker wire due to the larger interaction.
There is a gentleman named Frank Gow at Audio Classics in Vestal, NY. He is an audio wiz, who said to me that cables DO NOT have to be of equal lenghts!
go to parts-express.com and read the forums on audio cable. You will find a lot of interesting stuff about speaker wires, etc. Length is not near as important as you might think unless your talking hundreds of feet in difference or 12GA. vs. 28GA. wire.