Phono Cable

If we are talking phono tonearm cables, the one to beat is the SilverAudio Silver Breeze. I use a balanced ARC PH2 and for 5 years I used the ARC balanced phono cable. When I tried the Silver Breeze, I could not believe all the detail and resolution I had been missing all those years. At $400 it was not cheap, but compared to so many others, it's a great deal. Call Max at SilverAudio (www.silveraudio.com) and he will let you try it out. Mine has the Din-to-XLR but most are Din-to-RCA.

I am also about to upgrade my phono cable and I have been hearing good things about both the Van den Hul D502 and the SilverAudio Silver Breeze. Has anyone actually compared these two (or with any others like the Nordost)?

Nobody has mentioned the Hovland. It too is incredible.

I've been happy for years with the Graham IC-30 running direct into my preamp; if you have a Graham arm, worth considering.

The siltech is very good, and pretty reasonable. Less than the Hovland, and the grounding scheme is so much better. I reduced the noise floor dramatically and increased dynamics and soundstaging quite a bit at the same time. Mine is an older model, which I think has been discontinued, but the new ones have the same grounding scheme. I think grounding is really significant with the low level signals coming off a moving coil.