Interconnect Length

Another possible option (if your parents will let you) is to mount a TT shelf to the studs of the rear wallor some type of combination of the above ideas.

Take folkfreak's advice, it's good.

Dear @chrisr : No more than 2m., it does not matters balanced or unbalanced IC cable. The cartridge very low level and delicated signal as more length it must run in a cable as more degradation suffers.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

Balanced cables are all I would ever use for anything over maybe 2 meters or so…and that's a stretch. It seems like balanced phono cables are a great idea as phono cables can use all the help they can get. My old Linn had a crappy tonearm cable that was improved amazingly when I bought a Jelco/Mogami cable…no hum from the cable picking up dimmer crap, and simply cleaner overall sound.

Here is the only way to run long runs of line level audio; you have to use a sending and receiving "Balun" plus Cat5e/6 cable


              http://muxlab.com/product/stereo-audio-balun

Buy the baluns, and make your own RCA cable for higher quality. The Cat5e/6 cable can be bought in various lengths. There will be no degradation.


The connection will be; RCA to balun (a few inches) 20 feet Cat 5e/6 to receiving balun, RCA (short) to line in.