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...that are low capacitance suitable for use as phono cable?This week we are seeing pictutes coming out of germany of phono cables so thick and heavy that the turntable connected was in danger of being pulled over, so I'm just wondering: is it possible to still achieve low capacitance even if the cable is so thick?
Or the manufacturer or would be user just dont care?
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Perhaps in part, but capacitance also depends upon the geometry between the two conductors inside, or the 3 conductors, in the case of a balanced cable. That said, I am a strictly a DIY cable person, except where there are some good commercial cables one can buy for a very little more than it would cost me to make them, like the Anti-Cables.
I think I'll get me a couple of these! :)
The dielectric is obviously not teflon.
:)
LOL...these are trans-oceanic cables!
I always considered the cable issue to be one of the last improvements on a system as far as time money and investigation into my total system. Don't use junk but don't invest in the price of a new TT on cables until all other parts of the system are compete. Just my take on it.
Kindablue
Depends. For example, if your cart wants to see a low load capacity, like for example many of the AT-MMs, going for a cable with low to very low capacity can even be a must. However, the cable of course only needs to be technically well-suited - which doesn't automatically mean that it also has to be expensive.
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
And then there is the matter of synergy. If there is anything to speaker cable and interconnect mystique, synergy has to be an essential part of it.
You are wise to stabilize the rest of your system before considering going there.
I agree; a new pair of jumpers and interconnects was the the last thing I did to my system.
The cable may be thick but the conductor inside doesn't have to be.
Don't know about capacitance. I know the Pangea 9 sounded better than the 14 on my cdp.
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You paid HOW MUCH for that electrical receptacle?!!! Are YOU nuts?
The OP is posting about interconnects rather than power cables like the Pangeas. Low capacitance is an important factor for cables used to connect turntables to the electronics as if it is too high the treble will be rolled off.
I understand what you mean, but (at the risk of sounding like a pedant) for the benefit of others who may not understand fully...
it should be added that the required cable capacitance depends on the phono stage input capacitance such that the total combination meets the load requirements of the cartridge being used (for MM) to achieve the frequency response specification. An arbitrarily low capacitance cable is not necessarily ideal. For example, the original Musical Fidelity phono stages such as the X-LP/S etc only have 47pF input capacitance as the default.
Pickering produced the TMZ-22S/E (of which I have one example) which was a high output, "low" (read medium) inductance cartridge (for standard MM inputs) specifically to meet the EMC requirements for the phono stages in Japanese amplifiers which allowed for up to 900pF load capacitance (according to the TLZ-22 manual).
For MC, that class of cartridge is insensitive to the capacitive load and indeed some phono stages incorporate a significant capacitive load (470pF in the case of the MF M1-ViNL).
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
Read your post Flood, over my head basically but I respect it, that said if you can hear it and feel it in the music then it is worth it. Anything else would just be me be me talking beyound my experience and that is no good for me or the forum.
Kindablue
Yeah. I thought about that after I posted. Forgot where I was there for a minute.
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You paid HOW MUCH for that electrical receptacle?!!! Are YOU nuts?
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