The issue with the tonearm cable is the extremely small cartridge output voltage traveling through it. Noise pick up (no pun intended!) can be a serious problem. A shielded cable is a real good idea.
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@inna - if you want to improve the performance of your one piece harness you could install (or have installed) a pair of Absolute Harmony RCA's from KLE Innovations. https://kleinnovations.com/kle-innovations-klei-products/klei-harmony-plug/ They are probably the best RCA's money can buy You will hear more clarity, improved imaging, deeper bass and faster dynamics. I have tried the other Harmony models, but the Absolute Harmony are extremely good and well worth the investment. Regards - Steve |
It's an interesting question. All cabling is important obviously, but the tonearm cable is probably the one in my system where the differences in sound quality seem to be more extreme and easier to hear as opposed to speaker cabling, IC's or power cables. And, incidentally, that is running fully balanced into a balanced/differential phono preamp with both balanced inputs and outputs so I don't buy into the idea that the cable is less critical in that application with a balanced phono pre. In my experience, that is not true. |
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