Graham 2.2 tonearm cables

Dear 4yanx: I tested severals phono cables in my system: Cardas Golden reference, Norsdot Valhalla, Kimber KCAG, Analysis Plus Silver Oval, XLO Gold Eclipse III, HarmoniTech, Audioquest Amazon, and a lot more.

I stay with the Silver Oval from Analysis Plus and the Kimber KCAG. Exellent cables to a very fair price, hard to beat it.

Neil, I own the Frog and the Colibri: these cartridges are very different in the sound reproduction, the Frog is a very good cartridge but the Colibri is in other league, hands down the Frog and many other top contenders. Don't miss it.

You have a nice audio system, I like the 23.5 and your SME V: this one works better in a statically balanced way instead dinamically balanced, you have to try it.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Hi Speedy:: The subject on phono cable ( like many other issues. ) is a hard choice. There are no rules. Here the only rule is “ our ears and sound bias “.
When we are talking about those kind of cables like: Cardas, XLO, Vetustas, Nordost, Audioquest, Analysis Plus, Graham, Discovery, Harmonic Technologies, etc...; every one is really a good cable, which is best for you: it is very hard to say and only you have that answer.

Why you don't like what you already have? or you only want to try something different. This issue is very important for to know what we are looking for.

We have to remember her that the Nsgarch audio system and his own music bias ( like mine ) are different from yours.

Like I already post here, I own severals differents phono cables that I already tested: time to time I try again all of them and always return to the Analysis Plus and Kimber Kable.

My priorities about music reproduction goes better with these two cables: neutral/natural, timbre, tonal balance and dynamics. I like the cables that don't tell me " I'm here ".

Unfortunatelly for all of us we have to try differents cables for to know which one is for us, there is no other solution about.

It is not an easy task because a new phono cable needs severals working hours for the " burn-in ", and from here we need severals days for to know and understand exactly what the cable is doing about the sound reproduction and if it is ok with me.

So, it is a risk that we have to take. I can't remember ( maybe someone can help us ) but there is a company that handle differents cable company lines and where you can try for 30 days and if you don't like it you can return and ask for your money. Here we have to remember that the price of a cable don't tell me nothing about its sound and the synergy with my audio system, the price only tell me if it is an expensive one or not to expensive.

Sorry Sirspeedy that I can't be more specific trying to help you.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.