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RE: Phono cable requirements?

If you are using a low-output moving coil cartridge, cable capacitance is not a concern. I use high-capacitance Monster Cable M-1000i with my low-output moving coil cartridges and they work just fine.

On the other hand, if you have a high-output MM cartridge, capacitance is definitely a concern. You should use low capacitance cables with MM cartridges.

Another place you should use low-capacitance cables is on the output of a step-up transformer. The reason is that step-up transformers reflect capacitance on their outputs back to the cartridge multiplied by the square of their turns-ratio. For example, if you have 1:20 step-up transformer with 400-pF capacitance on its secondary, the cartridge will see 0.16-µF capacitance. This is a little bit higher than you would like even for a low-output moving coil.

Best regards,
John Elison

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