Speakers Leads shorter than others?

[WazMeister]

I want to extend my speaker leads but someone said all my 5.1 speakers need the same length wires.

Well Im only using 2 speakers atm bcause I only have wire enough for 2 of the rears ones.

can I not extend the 2 rear speakers with a longer lead and leave my other speakesr till I get more wire?

What does it do if my 2 rear are longer wires than my 3 front speakers?

Blow them?
Not work?
Sound lag?

[thegreathopper]

cable.

What does it do if my 2 rear are longer wires than my 3 front speakers?

Blow them?
Not work?
Sound lag?

You will have no problems at all if you extend the cable your rear speakers, generally you should keep the cable length for the front pair equal and rear pair equal..
for example my front speakers both have 3 metres of cable and my rears both have 6 metres of cable.
my centre speaker has 2 metres, my sub is active so has no speaker cable.

the reason to keep each pair the same is to keep equal cable resistance.

[charlesr]

Front and rear different is no problem because you can set the delay on your amp if it doesn't sound right (if you have a decent amp).

[thegreathopper]

Front and rear different is no problem because you can set the delay on your amp if it doesn't sound right (if you have a decent amp).

As Charlesr says you should be able to set the time delay, on my amp you do this by setting the distance from you to each speaker.

[sj33]

That's if you even need to.

[Space Monkey]

Surely when you set the speaker distances on your amp its so that it can compensate for any slight delays caused by the sound waves having to travel further and not due to the cable length and electrical signal delay. Electricity travels at the speed of light does it not?

[charlesr]

Electrons move down the cable at around 1m/s. However, the signal moves along it much faster because it's like punching one end of a block of wood - as soon as the punched end moves, the other end moves too - all the electrons get shoved along. It's still no instant though.