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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