If you're talking about the cheapie cables in my last photo, I would agree. Those are coming off the back of my stock SL-1200mkII TT. My other TT is a highly modified SL-1200mII from KAB with quality RCA phono jacks, fluid damper, tonearm rewire, and few other tricks. You'll see better cables with that TT in the other pics.
But none of this changes the fact that the EAR 834P suffers from a pair of junk internal SUTs that are crammed into it's chassis. I know of others who run this phono in the way that I do using it in MM mode with an external SUT. The improvement is huge, not in a tiny audiophool nit picky way but very noticeable.
This is not the case with all phono preamps that I have owned but the external SUT helps a LOT with some that can't seem to do MC right.
