I use Blue Jeans Cable from the Seattle area. Their interconnects have very low capacitance, and very reasonable price wise. Quality connectors and so on.
Not sure if your Rega has RCA jacks or fixed leads coming out of the tonearm.
If the Rega uses a din plug so you can use alternate phono cables then it is possible for you to have some made that will reach your phono inputs.
Or you could move your Rega close enough to reach the phono input.
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All,
Thank you for the blue jeans cable suggestions but I make my own interconnects using either cardas rca connectors or neutrik balanced XML with Duelund oil infused cotton wrapped wire from Germany. If you haven’t heard about it, Google it. It’s great stuff! |
Sorry I meant to say XLR connectors. I also use the grounding shielding. |
Sorry again, Duelund wire is from Denmark. |
... as far as I understand, capacitance does not matter if you use a Moving Coil(MC) cartridge. The OP’s cartridge in this case is a moving magnet type. But regarding this point, generally speaking load capacitance is much less important in the case of a **low output** moving coil cartridge. But it can still matter, to a greater or lesser degree depending on the particular phono stage that is used, and generally speaking the less capacitance the better in the case of an LOMC. Lyra cartridge designer Jonathan Carr explained it as follows, in a post dated 8-14-2010 this thread: I should now debunk another myth regarding loading, which is that low-impedance MC cartridges are insensitive to capacitive loading. OK, the MC cartridges themselves aren’t particularly sensitive to capacitance, but the inductance of the cartridge coils will resonate with the distributed capacitance of the coils and the capacitance of the tonearm cable to create a high-frequency spike, and this spike certainly is sensitive to capacitance. In general, the less the capacitance the better. Having more capacitance (across the plus and minus cartridge outputs) will increase the magnitude of the high-frequency spike and lower its frequency, neither of which is good news for phono stage stability or phase response.
Generally speaking, the greater the capacitance across the plus and minus cartridge outputs, the heavier the resistive loading needs to be to control the resulting high-frequency spike. Conversely, less capacitance allows the resistive load on the cartridge to be reduced, which will benefit dynamic range, resolution and transient impact.
From the above we can deduce that tonearm cables for low-impedance MCs should have low capacitance. As a test, some time ago I built some 5-pin low-capacitance tonearm cables of 1.2m length (configured for use with a Graham Phantom). Including 5-pin and RCA connectors, the smallest-capacitance versions got down to 32pF, there was an intermediate version at 42pF, and the highest-capacitance version had 50pF. I felt that these low-capacitance tonearm cables resulted in greater flexibility in loading, a more natural tonal balance with better dynamics and resolution, and were a worthwhile upgrade. Regards, -- Al |
