Phono Cable "breakout"

I thought of that, Schipo, but it would be bad for resale, I think. So, Bill, and trust me I do not know this, is there no real difference between interconnect and phono cable? I have been doing what you say to do for quite some time, but I have been considering it a weak link because it is not actually designed for phono. Hmm, makes me wonder how many people use regular interconnect on their VPI tables.

You need to try some different ones first. For phono, they do need to be shielded better in a lot of cases. RF from radio stations, AC hum, could leak into some. I don't use the braided/interweave type for phono. That design seems to have some hum IME. I go by what sounds good there.

Synergistic Research Tricon phono cables come as 2 separate RCA cables so that should also work for you. I am using SR Tricon with my VPI table also.

Tricon sounds interesting even though I cannot find one picture of the phono version, and no mention of it on the Synergistic website. Once again, I wonder if Tricon and Tricon phono are the same cable.

Any RCA interconnect can be used for phono, but since the cable is handling a much lower level signal than with line level sources some additional criteria should be considered. Suitable interconnects should generally be well shielded designs, since these cables are susceptible to picking up hum from any electromagnetic sources in close proximity. The cables should also have low capacitance which is particularly important for MM cartridges, since their sound is more significantly affected by capacitive loading than are MC cartridges. The bottom line is that you can really try any RCA cables with your setup and just see which sound best to you.