Don't you mean that the other way around? It's just the opposite as I see it. I feel you're more stretched out that way and you're going to put more stress on your hands.

My solution would be to move the seat up, raise stem height, wear the best padded gloves you can and wrap your handlebars in vibration absorbing material.

My latest brilliant idea was to take a computer mouse pad, the rubber neoprene type, cut it into a "J" shape and place it under my handlebar wrap. It sounds like a good idea, cheap enough, but after a year of using it, I'm not exactly sure it made a difference or not.