I am assuming you have a fully balanced chain. In that case 1ft or 10ft won’t have any perceivable difference. Since most of the noise is in the common mode form, and fully balanced chain is nearly immune to common mode noise, there won’t be a significant difference.In the similar lines, if you were to choose between say, a 10ft speaker cable and 1ft interconnect (XLR) or 1ft speaker cable and 10 ft interconnect (XLR), what would you choose and why, if you could kindly explain? Basically, what I am trying to find out as to which option would be better in a setup consisting of a pair of monoblocks.
This is the reason why studios have fully balanced chain for recording.
If you have an unbalanced chain, you need to keep the interconnect short as it’s more vulnerable between the two.
As far as I know and remember correctly, TV and Radio Spectrum allocation varies very little from country to country. A radio or tv purchased from one country works perfectly in another country.Well yes. This has been known and solidly proven for at least 100 years. Now as you no doubt know, at RF frequencies, transmission line factors come into play and cable impedance becomes more critical. Still shorter is always better provided that is taken to consideration. But what is of question here is this 57&1/8in specific length, or multiples thereof. Your TV transmission theory is of some interest but keep in mind that every country has different RF spectrum allocations as well as different video formats, even in the an analog days. So this precise cable length is hardly universal in any case. The promoters of this theory have not been able to provide any peer reviewed scientific data to back up the claims.
I agree with you that the lengths mentioned doesn't come with any explanation. That’s the precise reason why I tried to find an explanation for at-least one of the length.
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