Diving into balanced

Go with 1 meter. Some are not super flexible and shorter cables can stress the connections. 

+3 on 1 meter.  I did the .5m thing and needed to replace them eventually.

Some cables, esp power cables, perform better at 1.75 to 2m.

Thanks all.  As a follow up, is it well accepted that balanced is better? 

Balanced is clearly and technically "better" but in most cases the human involved cannot tell the difference anyway. 

I’ll be the outlier; go 1.5M. You never know how the system will evolve and next thing you know you have the units next to each other and one set of outputs and the other inputs are on opposite sides from each other due to other system needs. Then, you’ll thank me!

Also, 1/2 meter cables are very hard to resell.

Have a great weekend.