The Long & the Short: Speaker Cables vs. Interconnects
Is there any benefit having long interconnects and (very) short speaker cables rather than the "conventional" short interconnects feeding an amp and longer speaker cables?
I have 4 monoblock amplifiers each connected to my passive pre-amp with 1m Van Damme interconnects, the monoblocks are each in-turn connected to the speakers by 3m Van Damme speaker cables. If I were to locate the monoblocks right by the speakers with a very short (e.g. 30cm) cable to the terminals and then 3m interconnects is this likely to be better or worse.
I recently read that the Kii 3 speakers go the extra step and are fed with Digital (AES/EBU) cables and internally have individual DACs feeding a D-class amplifier for each of the drivers.
This it got me wondering if there is a poor man's version of this based on a S/PDIF or optical to a DAC feeding the monoblocs for each speaker... may be I am just hallucinating.
Cheers
Alastair
RPI4/PI2AES running PiCorePlayer/LMS-> AQ Carbon AES -> Topping D90 DAC-> Khozomo Passive Pre-Amp -> 4x Temple Audio Monoblocks powered by 2xLiFePO batteries->Van Damme Black Bi-Wired to B&W 804 Nautilus and Sommer Carbokab 225 Interconnects