What's wrong with 6-7 ft tonearm wires?


I've bought a 2nd turntable which can only be placed 7 ft from my Preamp with inbuilt phonostage.
Would the capacitance be too great in phono cables this long?
I don't want to buy a separate phono stage for the new turntable as it would be hard to compete with the inbuilt one in the Halcro DM10.
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Showing 3 responses by nilthepill

7 ft may not be a problem but any longer than that if you do A/B comparision you will find decresed resolution.

I experimented 1.2m, 1,5m, 2m, 4m and 6m on my both high out put and low output cartridge ( two diff turntables, diff phonos) using same cable make and found 1.5 m was optimumm with 2m being okay (hair lower resolution) and detrioting significantly as you go longer. At 4m it became pretty obvious.
Hi Al,

The Acoustic Zen Silver ref II had claim to have lower capacitance and their website used to have values specified, but just checked today and I can't find the values anymore. Very neutral sonic signature if that gives you any idea.