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Is a captured good tonearm cable better than a high quality one DIN connection?

I am making a big leap into a $6K Triplaner tonearm that comes with a nice silver captured cable.
I was happy that I was able to eliminate my $4K tonearm cable and would have a direct connection.
But wonder if I should keep using my great tonearm cable with a DIN connection instead. My system is highly resolving and, as we all, want the best sound possible. 
mglik

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lewm
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Tomic not tonic.
lewm
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Tonic, no. Sometimes fanaticism yields to convenience. However, if I ever owned a SUT, I would be sure it utilized flying leads between SUT and phono stage.
lewm
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It all boils down to my motto: the best connector is no connector. No matter how expensive a connector might be, no matter how elegant it may appear, and no matter what precious metal it is made of, you are better off getting rid of it.
lewm
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I watched Herb Papier install the wire in myTriplanar. It’s a continuous run from cartridge to plugs.
lewm
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What exactly have you purchased, and what exactly do you propose to do? it sounds like you have purchased a triplanar with a continuous cable from the cartridge pins all the way to the inputs of a phono stage. If that is the case, then no it would not make any sense to attach that cable to a box so you could then use your expensive interconnects into the phono stage. Anyway, so far as I know, the tri-planer is offered either with a continuous single cable such as I just described or a short external cable that terminates in a box with female RCA connectors on the other side. It is not conventionally offered with a DIN interface. But I suppose you can get it any way you want it.
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