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I recently upgraded my phono cable from an Audioquest Jaguar to the Hovland Music Groove 2, which has received many positive reviews and costs more than double. After about 30 hours break-in time I’m wondering if my money was well spent or if “the emperor has no clothes”. Many of the small, but expensive, tweaks that I have made to my system have left me wondering if I’ve just been sucked into the audiophile black hole. Do I have defective ears or are these tweaks to minor to notice?
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Good upgrade. Your ears are fine. The cables will take time to break in, but the tiny voltage from a phono will never properly break in a cable. This is according to a major phono cable manufacturer. Here's what I do:You'll need an Ohm meter if the cable has a DIN. If so, insert wire jumpers in the DIN to connect the phono plug pins together and the grounds together. If your cables are just RCA-RCA, great. Now use the cables between a tuner or CD and your preamp and run them in for 200 hours or so.
This 2V (nominal) signal, which is 2000 times greater than the voltage from a (1mv) cartridge, will be MUCH more efficient at breaking in your cables. Put another way, it would take 49 YEARS using a phono cartridge non-stop to accomplish what you can get in 9 DAYS on a tuner or CD player. And you thought you'd never use math after high school!
Happy listening.
Regards,
JerryS
The signal size coming out of your cartridge is too damn small to effectively break in any cable, even after hundreds of hours of use. Here's 2 ideas:(1) get a cable cooker
(2) manufacture 2 gizmos with some spare RCA's and some solid core bare wire (one to + and one to - on the RCA's). Now stick the RCA's into the outs of your CD player and run the wires into your DIN jack. Plug your phono cable into your preamp and listen to 100 or so hours of CD's through this rig. It will far surpass the burn in you will get from your cartridge.Enjoy,
bob
A gentleman is best defined as someone who knows how to play the accordion ... and doesn't.
I agree, thats why I broke the cable in for 1.5 days on a CD player before installing on my phono. Perhaps it needs more time? Thanks for the suggestion.
The cable may not be the weak link & therefore greater benefits may be heard by focusing on other aspects of your gear.
Often it is a matter of system synergy, which is difficult-to-impossible to anticipate.As one with a PhD in economics, I expect you are aware of the concept of diminishing returns. The Jaguar surely is a good cable. What you are experiencing should not be surprising.
perhalf both the cable you have is too close in sound so hard to call wich better or any improvement with your new cable .
yes I did heard the Hovland Music Groove is very good but I never try it .
how much was it cost compare to the Audioquest Jaguar ?
and yes this hobby is black hole .
Cheers man.
LT
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