phono arm to pre cables

i sure will get with you on the aires 3, i tried a benz glider first it was ok, i had the opportunity to try a dynavector 20xl and it was a easy choice to go with it, i think you are going in the right direction with the 834p, i had mitch do his latest mod and have been rolling tubes also, vip should be getting back to me this week on my phono cable questions, for now the jps superconductor 2 aint to shabby, i havent used any exclusive phono cables yet except the stock one that came with the mmf 7 i have,

renowned mastering engineer steve hoffman has endorsed cables by a guy named grover huffman on his web forum. many on the forum have tried the cables, including myself, and think they're a terrific, and a bargain to boot. grover makes dedicated phono cables in addition to his ic's and speaker cables. here is a link to the thread regarding grover on the hoffman forum:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=47670&highlight=grover#goto_threadsearch

If you have rca connectors at the terminal junction of your arm, then you can use any IC. Even if your setup requires a DIN connector, you can still use any IC, but will have to have it terminated appropriately.

Here are just a few arm-to-phostage/pre IC suggestions:

Harmonic Technology Magic Link
Origin IC (purposely designed as analog IC)
Discovery Essence

In my system, all are preferred over the Audience Au24, Coincident CST, Placette IC or Jena Labs Symphony. I like the Magic Link best among the three above-listed ICs.

Howeverm, if you can get away with using an unshielded cable from your arm to the phonostage/preamp (shock, horror disbelief), I would strongly recommend that you give Paul Garner's Verbatim cables a try. This also happens to be my reference IC from my APL modded cd player to my preamp.

Happy listening!

i am going with the hovland music groove 2, its on the way