Speaker cable lengths for your HT

[FP]

My fronts required a far smaller cable than my rears. I had considered keeping the lengths the same size but opted against it due to space constraints.

Do you keep all of your speaker wire lengths the same?

 

[Tiamat]

I think keeping them the overall similar resistance would be more important... I think signal travels at at least 80% speed of light through copper, thats pretty fast!

Overall resistance would be kept if you just make sure you use appropriate wire gauge for the distance you are running.

I happen to have equal lengths for my front left and front right.

 

[Deudalus]

It doesn't really matter to be honest.

In fact, you could run a 30 foot length of 16 gauge single wired to a left speaker and a 8 foot length of 12 gauge bi wired to the right speaker and never know the difference.

 

[olds]

I keep them the same length for each set of speakers.
IE:
Fronts are both 5' long.
Rears are both 20' long.
I am sure it makes little to no difference but it isn't hurting anything.

 

[nboy22]

I don't but I have before. In my mind, you won't actually notice a difference in timing because electricity travels so fast.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

equal distance for the front 3 and rear pair. it's the little things that matter, and one of those is velocity of proagation.