Short connections to speakers or amps? (1 Viewer)

[Mike H]

I was wondering if it would make sense to have longer connections between the pre-pro to a amp sitting next to the speaker, or have longer runs of speaker cable from the same amp to the speaker, with the connection between the amp and the pre-pro being shorter.

Mike

 

[Phil A]

My preference would be to keep the speaker connection as short as possible assuming that we are not talking about extremely long distances (e.g. 100 ft.) with the other connections.

 

[Mark Austin]

I would agree with Phil. Keep your speaker wire connections as short as possible, and go with lengthier IC's from pre to amp.

 

[Bob McElfresh]

One of the "names" in high-end audio, Dunlevy, tries to never have a speaker wire more than about 8 feet long.

A long run of wire, carrying watts of power becomes a transmission line - (think of an antenna)

Many of the issues disappear when running line-level (un-amplified) signals over a long run of coax.

So an ideal system runs coax to near each speaker, and a mono-block amp for the short jump to the speaker itself.

Hope this helps.