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Hah! Come on, it’s not about latency.
The electrical characteristics of wire change with an increase in length. Different length cables have different resistance and inductance. Makes sense to keep length consistent if you want whatever coloration to be identical for L & R. That’s science bro.
I didn’t buy into the speaker cable changing sound until I tried two strands of cat5 instead of thicker multi-strand cable a couple of weeks ago. Sounded completely different (shit). Don’t really get how some full range speaker guys swear by it.
dbr-
I think I saw an explanation that put this into perspective by saying that yes of course the electrical properties of different length wires were different, but the variation in spec of all the resistors, capacitors, indicators etc in the rest of the system was several orders of magnitude greater.
So unless you are going to have a 1m cable and a 100m cable, I wouldn't worry too much.
danb
When the signal velocity of an electron is getting close to the speed of light I don't think the 4 metre difference in cable length will make a difference...