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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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paladin
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Should be no problem especially if going balanced into the DM10.
Great pre & phono section - I run everything balanced on mine.
ebm
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Its ok 1 meter is better as its very low level signal.
nilthepill
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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.
nilthepill
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I should add that all the cables were rca/rca
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almarg
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Nil -- What was the capacitance per foot of the cables?

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