These characters are picking on you. Spk. wire length is of no importance, but I would make it good quality 2 conductor #12 stranded. Low oxy. content is easy to get these days and relatively cheap. You will not hear it but it looks nice after a few years.
Time delay on the left/right channels relative to the center is the only concern for reasonable image stability. Place the spks. on the same horizonal plane. Then recall that the delay is about 1 ms per foot, and this is how you would move the left and right spk acoustically to achieve an arc in front of you with the center channel at the max distance (on the top view of the semi-circle). The left and right spks. should be on this arc. Fine adjustment would be handy (.1 ms) but lateral reflections (or lack there of) will swamp the detail. It depends on your room size and spk placement relative to the floor and ceiling.

That's cool. I was just mistaken. I was trying to offer advice as to why delay is still important regardless of format. I'm in a dedicated room with full control of speaker placement, so I didn't end up usign the delay setting. I posted what I recalled without thinking about what I was saying. I would have slammed me to if I'd read it.

My idiocy aside, the original point it that delay is not just for pro-logic.

brianca

Sorry if it came across that way - it was too good to pass up. Keep watching - you'll get a shot at me soon enough!


Charlie

I do think speaker cable length is important, but not for delays. It's better to match the cable length for pairs of speakers and for the three fronts if you can, so that whatever distortion is caused by resistance, capicatance, inductance, or whatever else is going on in your speaker cable isn't done more to one speaker than to the other.