Do I really have to buy new speaker cables?

Posted by: Meerkat on 17 July 2018

Moved house recently and intend having a dedicated music room, but the problem I have, is that one of my 'Tellurium Black' 3 metre speaker cables is 0.75m too short for my set up. I am informed that it's not good to have one speaker cable longer than the other. At about £58 per metre, I didn't really want to pay out on two new cables. So, the work around would be to locate the rack in between the speakers, that way they'd be long enough.

Looking at 100's of 'System Pics', loads of people place their rack/TV in between their speakers.

The set up has the speakers 210cm apart, moving them closer would may solve the speaker cable issue, but could impact the sound.

Any ideas please guys?

Thanks

Posted on: 20 July 2018 by Meerkat

james n posted:
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Sit back and enjoy your new system for many years to come

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Posted on: 20 July 2018 by JRHardee

If a system gets better when you move a TV, it's probably because the speaker inside the TV has been moved to where it can do less harm. Additional speakers in a listening room are a major no-no. I'ver heard systems go downhill when an unused pair of headphones was brought into the room.

Posted on: 20 July 2018 by Meerkat

Looking back at 100's of the 'System Pics', probably 8 out of 10 have a TV, or some other kind of speaker in the room, 5.1 etc...

I do have the opportunity to use an empty room, but it is a tad small, thus the location of the rack v speakers is not ideal.

Posted on: 20 July 2018 by james n

JRHardee posted:
If a system gets better when you move a TV, it's probably because the speaker inside the TV has been moved to where it can do less harm. Additional speakers in a listening room are a major no-no. I'ver heard systems go downhill when an unused pair of headphones was brought into the room.

It's like being back in the 80s in the company of a militant Linn dealer

Posted on: 20 July 2018 by Klout10

Hahaha, you mean the single speaker demonstration?

Posted on: 20 July 2018 by Peder

james n posted:
JRHardee posted:
If a system gets better when you move a TV, it's probably because the speaker inside the TV has been moved to where it can do less harm. Additional speakers in a listening room are a major no-no. I'ver heard systems go downhill when an unused pair of headphones was brought into the room.
It's like being back in the 80s in the company of a militant Linn dealer

It is too hot outside to respond to the other ????, I get back to it.
But a short answer here....

Yes,the same truths and conditions still apply,.. It hasn't changed.
But times have changed,today's usual new customers do not have the interest that existed on the 80 and 90 's and a bit into the 2000 's.
All of us know,that this interest has decreased strongly since the middle of the 90 century.

Would traders talk about things like that today, with new customers who would buy a music system..so then they would probably lose that customer.

Most customers today want a "life style system",which plays well enough and looks nice together with other furniture....not 6-14 black boxes.

Just look at Linn,they've completely stopped being "Attention To Detail"....it doesn't sell.
But just because it does not sell,old truths do not cease to exist.

Now back out in the heat.....
/Peder ????