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Longer speaker cables or phono cables?

I need to rearrange a bit in order to get my turntable further away from my speakers, thereby eliminating some foul sonic feedback. I would prefer not to move my rack of other components and/or change my speakers to the short wall, but will, if I must. The way I see it, I can either get a different (longer) set phono cables and move the TT or get longer speaker cables and make that adjustment. which is preferable in anyone's experience?
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bob_bundus
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I must agree that the longer speaker cables are certainly the lesser of two evils.
One way around this might be to place your phono stage (if separate) adjacent to the turntable, thus driving the interconnects at much higher levels & buffered to boot. This would help reduce the deleterious effects of long cable reactance (capacitance / inductance).
Frankly I see no problem with the longer speaker cables; I've always used them myself.
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