phono cable suggestions..

I should chime in on this one. There are tremendous differences in phono cables and standard interconnects if the manufacturer knows what they are doing. They operate at totally different electrical values. The single most important thing to great analog performance is the loading. If you do not use the proper cable you will not have the load matched to the pickup or the input. I'm glad to offer any advise I can in regard to this. Steve 8007524018

Question for Steve at hififarm

Can you explain what you mean by loading as it relates to tt phono cables? I assume this has something to do with impedences and matching a cartridge and phonostage and the effect that cables have on loading. Is this true? Is it the inductance or capacitance of a cable that impacts the loading? or something else? And lets say you want a cartridge to see a 100 ohm load at the phonostage and using stepup tranformers and resistors a 100 ohm load is present, how does a cable change that? or does it?

And lets say every analog configuration is unique, which is pretty much the truth... if nothing is the same, does a user have to figure what he has and then get a cable that matches what they have? If so, then how does one figure all the numbers out?

I have to second the post on the Silver Breeze phono cable. I had a Hovland Music Groove cable in my system and purchased a Manley Steelhead phono stage and the Hovland wouldn't fit the Manley( the RCA jacks on the back were too far apart to use the Hovland)I purchased the Silver Breeze and have been amazed with the improvement in my system. It is an extremely detailed and muscial cable. I have been thinking about trying the Silver Audio speaker cable to see if it also improves the sound.

Zu Xaus is an outstanding phono cable IMHO

Another vote for the Silver Breeze.