Love the title of your post Mordante! Cables are starting to drive me pretty batty too! I am starting to wonder if I shouldn't just stick to what I have and simply enjoy the music!?!
Cable, they drive me nuts.
I just sold my old speakers and want to invest that in a phono amp. But right now I do not have a seperate phono amp. So if I do buy one I will need an extra interlink. Right now I have two interlinks is my system. Both are Cardas one is a Hexlink 5 the other one I am not sure what model. However both are old and the isolation is losing a bit of its flexibility. So in the future I might replace them as well.
But now back to the original problem. If I buy a phono stage what cable should I buy? I own a VPI Scout turntable so I need a RCA-RCA interconnect. Now should I buy a "special" phono interconect like the Harmonic Technology CopperPhono or a simular able by Nordost. Or will any RCA interconnect do.
Then there is the price. All those special phono cables cost so much. I have a hard time justifying spending more the €250 on an interconnect when I buy a a phono amp costing between 1000-1500 (new or second hand).
So what would you do? If I buy a phono stage I will not have the funds to buy an expensive interconnect (more the 200). So what I can do is buy a €10 interconnect for now and later replace it or spend about 100-200 and keep it that way.
My system:
Speaker Master One
Turntable VPI Scout
Cartride Lyra Dorian
Integrated amp Symphonic Line La Musica
CD Transport CEC TL51x
DAC Wadia 12
Speaker cable NBS active IV
power cable DAC NBS Omega 3
power cable CD Transport NBS DragonFly
But now back to the original problem. If I buy a phono stage what cable should I buy? I own a VPI Scout turntable so I need a RCA-RCA interconnect. Now should I buy a "special" phono interconect like the Harmonic Technology CopperPhono or a simular able by Nordost. Or will any RCA interconnect do.
Then there is the price. All those special phono cables cost so much. I have a hard time justifying spending more the €250 on an interconnect when I buy a a phono amp costing between 1000-1500 (new or second hand).
So what would you do? If I buy a phono stage I will not have the funds to buy an expensive interconnect (more the 200). So what I can do is buy a €10 interconnect for now and later replace it or spend about 100-200 and keep it that way.
My system:
Speaker Master One
Turntable VPI Scout
Cartride Lyra Dorian
Integrated amp Symphonic Line La Musica
CD Transport CEC TL51x
DAC Wadia 12
Speaker cable NBS active IV
power cable DAC NBS Omega 3
power cable CD Transport NBS DragonFly