Can anyone recommend a good balanced phono cable


I am new to vinyl. I have a Merril Scilia MS2 turntable,B&W 800 series speakers, Classe ca-400 Amp, Bat Vk 51 se pre ,and Bat vkp10 phono stage.

Bat tells me that the phono stage should be used with the balance inputs and balanced outputs for optimum performance. I don't see to many balanced phono cables around. Doe anyone have any advice?

Cturnem
cturnem
I use a pr. of balanced Audioquest Skys with great results from my table to BAT VK-P10. Also use the same from phono to BAT REX preamp.
The balanced Jelco (Mogami) cable is probably too cheap to really garner much respect but it is, IMO, a very good phono cable.

Cryo it and have it burned in on something like the Audiodharma cable cooker and I would expect it to give some seriously priced balanced phono cables a pretty good run for their money. If you don't like it, you can sell it and perhaps lose $50-$75.

Quite a bit better in my setup than a phono cable constructed using 4 x 24 shielded Cardas wire.

03-30-11: Marakanetz
Bigbucks,
It's a piece of cake to rewire tonearm for balanced cables by splitting ground wire onto both channels and than connecting pos-neg correspondedly to XLR plugs. The cartridge output is realy meant to be balanced, but there are not too many phonostages that have balanced input.
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I realize that. My point was that if you order a cable with XLRs, you better KNOW how it is being wired by the mfgr, because he may not wire the way you think. So a word to the wise is to check the wiring scheme before buying.
Thanks guys for all your help. BigBucks, I will certainly check on the wiring schematic before I purchase.