Need a very neutral interconnect-

Ditto AQ stuff...Diamonback XLRs, King Cobra RCAs...even an inexpensive solid core something to my secondary power amp...all bought used and sound fabulous. Your results may vary, but beware of opinions on this stuff...except mine of course.

It is a connundrum...I have never been forgiven for rejecting a pair of Mogami XLR ICs (reduced my rig to sounding like hamsters squealing into a megaphone) as nobody else has ever had issues with them except me. I still get hate mail, sneers from strangers, bad service in Parisian bistros, and general distain from that post, and it will likely take years for my reputation to recover. That said, I think when you listen to your rig and it sounds great, your cable quest is done...and I did it with mostly "previously owned and broken in" AQ stuff, with a Mogami (hey...I'm not dead inside!) turntable IC.

Yeah...so I learned when taking an easy road to a pair of Mogami 3 foot XLR cables from Guitar Center...lasted exactly one day and back they went, replaced by AQ XLR Diamondnbacks that sound sweet. Again, the Mogami Jelco din thing works fine.

A Jelco tonearm din/rca cable for my Akito made of Mogami Neglex 2534...in pink! (Ebay)

Although I don't actually understand the post from Bo, I feel I have to object to it anyway...really...somebody has to.

Bo never ceases to amaze (or simply never ceases), and please, do not let him in the room with the musicians.

So now I'm NOT an idiot? So confusing...anyway...None of the "high end" salons in my Near Boston area had a din cable to fit my Akito arm. Lame but true. The Jelco cable looked great (Ebay) and has a well made gold din plug, nice gold RCAs, and says "Neglex 2434" on its pink (!) skin...it seems to be able to get electrons from my table to the preamp in decent shape, and if a much more expensive cable would do a better job of this I will never know because I'm perfectly happy with this one. Maybe I AM an idiot.

A background lacking hifi reproduction gear generated noise is all this should mean. I want to hear the glass clinking Madmen era laughing drunk ass NY crowd at the Bill Evans show...or the cool man low hum of anticipation at a symphony...the room Yo Yo used for his solo Bach. Otherwise you can keep your dead background, and add "black" to the lexicon of useless audio terms invented by reviewers...like "speed" and "PRAT". I'm stickin' with "alive" and "ambient" and "warm" in my listening room...dead will be here soon enough.