I did end up having mine cryoed and burned in on an Audiodharma cable cooker (the Cardas cable I had also had been treated that way). The Jelco is an absolute steal and also noticeably better than the Cardas I linked to above. Mine is the balanced version so a bit more money around $140 but the single ended (either straight or 90 degree din-mine is straight and works fine with my Gyro) is availabable around $100. On a lark a couple of months ago I bought the Jelco tonearm cable just as a cheap experiment. The Van den Hul MCD 502 phono cable that I have that dates back to the late 80's is indeed an absolute piece of crap.īuilt by Gene at Takefiveaudio a few years ago and the Takefive Cardas cable was significantly better. It's amazing to me how difference good cabling makes, particularly from the tonearm to the phono stage! I beginning to think David Salz of Wireworld is right, a number of the problems we think we hear with our stereo components are due to colorations and distortions caused by the cables/interfaces. The mids are dark and the highs are bright, the bass is wooly and loose, and there isn't much openness, clarity or soundstage depth. I didn't think it was possible for a cable to be dark AND bright, but it is. Well, I got as far as about 1 LP this stock cable is dreadful. I remember it being unimpressive, but I wanted to be able to listen to LPs. In meantime, I dug out the SME V stock Van den Hul tonearm cable from the arm box and hooked it up tonight, spun up an LP and listened. The Grover's phono cable I use for my late 80s-vintage SME V tonearm recently developed developed a nasty hum due to a short or break in the ground lead near the tonearm DIN plug end (more on that later) I will have to send it back to Grover for repair.
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