Phono cable advice.
@three_easy_payments, you’ve answered your own question and it’s that dreaded ’disease’ we audiophiles get called ’upgrade-itis’ and it looks as if you’re starting to get symptoms of it. But don’t worry cause it’s actually kinda fun.☺ @soudermn, I couldn’t agree more...IMHO |
@soundermn well, touch your unshielded phono cable by hand and let me know if you hear hum in your speakers at that moment. Unshielded cables are problematic for Low Output Moving Coil cartridges, the signal of LOMC is under 0.3mV while the MM signal is 2-5mV. Low signal from MC is extremely sensitive, not like MM. Not sure which type of cartridges do you use, probably MM or HOMC? You don’t need a tuner to hear radio in your speakers with unshielded cables :)) It was very interesting when some spanish voice blabling something in my speakers when the tonearm was lifted up. This is because of the unshielded cable only. You never know. To be honest i’ve never seen unshielded phono cable, even those free cables that comes with cheap turntables are all shielded for phono signal. |
@chakster, thanks for the sage advice! Going forward, I will avoid touching or holding my cables while listening to music. FWIW, to answer your condescending question, I use LOMC. An Audio Technica ART9, to be exact. Not exactly junk. Neither is my Chinook, nor my Primaluna Dialogue HP. In my case, I would need a tuner to hear the radio... my cables don't receive FM broadcasts, as you so arrogantly insist they do. Several people here, including industry experts are saying phono cables don't need to be shielded in most (not all) cases. Why do you continue to argue your point, while seemingly putting me down? |
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