Phono Cable "breakout"

You need to try some different ones first. For phono, they do need to be shielded better in a lot of cases. RF from radio stations, AC hum, could leak into some. I don't use the braided/interweave type for phono. That design seems to have some hum IME. I go by what sounds good there.

Since audio began, we didn't have cables labeled for phono until recent years that I knew of, or at least payed any attention to them. I've tried some that friends loaned to me since they're always trying something new. My regular cables seems to sound better than some of the ones that are labeled as phono, in the same price range,or pricier sometimes, from the same companies. Like I mentioned above, try them first and go by the sound. The only ones that don't seem to work is the braided type do to poor shielding I'm guessing, plus some of them don't specs to compare . I use low output MC and MM cartridges. I wouldn't be surprised if some record companies just use coax, standard IC's to see how a record sounds fresh of the press.

I wonder how many companies do use basically the same cables for phono in just a different box or packaging not to loose sales. If they work great already, why change them. Here is an example of what I mean. Top of page ad.[http://buy.audiogon.com/cgia/fsb.pl?0&1&t2http://buy.audiogon.com/cgia/fsb.pl?0&1&t2]

Sorry, thank link takes you to a different home page. Here's
a copy & paste of the ad.
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