Cables have 3 basic specifications--resistance, inductance, and capacitance, or R-L-C. Capacitance is measured in farads, or in the case of interconnects, picoFarads (pF). High capacitance rolls off the treble and slows down the rise time. The signal coming off a tonearm is rather fragile and easily darkened by too much capacitance.
Generally, you'll want the total capacitance of the interconnect from the tonearm to the preamp to be around 100 pF or less. Some cable companies publish capacitance figures and some don't. Sometimes you can pick up the figure when a reviewer tests them. I remember around 15 years ago that the Audioquest Emerald interconnect had vanishingly low capacitance.
Kimber cable interconnects have pretty low capacitance. They rate their Timbre interconnect at 45.8 pF, I think, for 1 meter.
Nordost often has *really* low capacitance. Their Solar Wind interconnect is rated at a very low 7.6 pF/foot. Their highest price stuff is around 20 pF/foot.
Cardas Audio also publishes their RLC specs. Cardas 300B is 42.9 pF/foot; Cardas Cross is 26.4 pf/foot (just about right), and their more upscale Neutral Reference is 19 pf/foot. They also make an entire line of DIN-plug phono cables.
Generally, you'll want the total capacitance of the interconnect from the tonearm to the preamp to be around 100 pF or less. Some cable companies publish capacitance figures and some don't. Sometimes you can pick up the figure when a reviewer tests them. I remember around 15 years ago that the Audioquest Emerald interconnect had vanishingly low capacitance.
Kimber cable interconnects have pretty low capacitance. They rate their Timbre interconnect at 45.8 pF, I think, for 1 meter.
Nordost often has *really* low capacitance. Their Solar Wind interconnect is rated at a very low 7.6 pF/foot. Their highest price stuff is around 20 pF/foot.
Cardas Audio also publishes their RLC specs. Cardas 300B is 42.9 pF/foot; Cardas Cross is 26.4 pf/foot (just about right), and their more upscale Neutral Reference is 19 pf/foot. They also make an entire line of DIN-plug phono cables.