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I've not too worried about that, I've already got some old standard-length RCA cables laying around (somewhere around here, at least) from back when that's how you hooked your TV up. I just wanna get shorter cables to keep things tidy - I got enough cable clutter as it is!Unless you really need short cables, I'd suggest getting 1 m and/or 2 m cables and letting the extra lie loosely behind the components. Always a chance you'll move something later and discover that sweet, expensive, custom 0.25 m cable is useless. Don't ask how I know this...
My PC hasn't got TOSLINK-out, no. Are there any in particular you'd recommend? I did see some on Amazon but I can't tell whether they'd be any good.A really good way to eliminate risk of ground loop in a simple system - especially one that is simply PC-Dac-Amp is to use an optical TOSLINK connection from PC to DAC. This fully breaks any electrical connection between the PC and the DAC.
If you don't have toslink out from your PC, cheap USB to toslink converters are available.
Whether I actually need to go down that road or not... I'll do my test when the amp and the RCA to 3.5mm get here, then go from there.