Sm2727 FWIW Brooks Berdan recommended cables longer than 1 meter, 1.5 meters actually for best results. Not everyone is out to get you on cables especially a company as large as Nordost, can you imagine them caring about 1/2 meter of cable, I think their passion for audio would suggest no!!!
Phono cables/philosphy ?
I have balanced phono cables of 1 meter (Nordost Baldur) I purposely went for the simpler design (fewer strands) because the more expensive ones in the line just seem to use more strands of the same stuff. Brands aside, do you think a simpler (less wire) cable makes more sense because of the low power of the signal? i have seen hair-like phono cables and fat ones and have wondered if driving so much metal makes sense (physically). Since I have xlr to xlr I never found any stock phono cables that would work and only considered regular interconnects. I guess I could special order some. Do most of you running xlr to xlr use regular interconnects? Thanks