I recently purchased from Pure Note a custom phono cable to use between phono stage and preamp and found it to be EXCELLENT. I suggest calling Tom and explaining what you seek, your components, and let him make a recommendation.
Dedicated phono cable or quality IC
I am new to vinyl and loving it. I have a Music Hall MMF-7, Sumiko Phono Box, Cary SLP50A pre-amp to a pair of Linn LK-85's and Linn Ninka speakers Activ. I have been looking around at upgrading the IC's in the TT to Cary chain. Am using the supplied cable from Music Hall to the sumiko then a spare set of Linn IC's from there to the Cary. The rest are Yamamura M5000's. I figured I could just use a good IC (looking at HT pro-silway) as the output from the MMF-7 is RCA. Now I see that there are dedicated phono cables and am wondering if, in my case, there is any need. I am using the Eroica high output MC cartridge, so I figured it would be less of an issue. Thoughts and recommendations? Thanks