Hello,
I would be interested in hearing about practical experiences with, and recommendations for, longer speaker cables. Our living/audio room is currently being refurbished and I am thinking about moving the audio gear to a rack on the long side wall. Preferably (from an interior decoration perspective) also the amp would be placed there to be less visually intruding. Also, I currently have an integrated amp which would not work very well when the front-end is on the side. This would require longer speaker cables of approx. 21'/7m. It seems that mostly it is recommended, for reasons I do not fully understand, to keep SC's short and rather have longer IC's, but some studies I read emphasize that any effects are only audible when distances are quite a bit longer, or with higher gauges cables or particularly inefficient amp/speaker combinations.
My speakers are 8 ohm/101dB on 25W tube amps, so theoretically voltage drop should not really be a practical issue?
I would be interested in hearing about practical experiences with, and recommendations for, longer speaker cables. Our living/audio room is currently being refurbished and I am thinking about moving the audio gear to a rack on the long side wall. Preferably (from an interior decoration perspective) also the amp would be placed there to be less visually intruding. Also, I currently have an integrated amp which would not work very well when the front-end is on the side. This would require longer speaker cables of approx. 21'/7m. It seems that mostly it is recommended, for reasons I do not fully understand, to keep SC's short and rather have longer IC's, but some studies I read emphasize that any effects are only audible when distances are quite a bit longer, or with higher gauges cables or particularly inefficient amp/speaker combinations.
My speakers are 8 ohm/101dB on 25W tube amps, so theoretically voltage drop should not really be a practical issue?