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

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.

I should add that all the cables were rca/rca

Nil -- What was the capacitance per foot of the cables?

Best regards,
-- Al

Thanks for all the responses.
I initially plan on using MM/MI cartridges but this may change in the future and I certainly would want to hear a few LOMC just for comparison purposes.

Almarg, could you please list some phono cables with those very low capacitance values?

Paladin, I agree with you about the DM10 and would prefer cables with XLR terminations but my understanding is that the cartridge signals are 'balanced' by nature and RCA or XLR do not change this?

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.