Ideas For Phono Cable For My Turntable.

There nothing wrong with your discovery cable - changing will be a lottery. I agree with @williewonka above - the Audiomods arm is a bargain and significant upgrade on the 1200 if you can afford to spend a little more. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. Spend the money on records.
If you must - keep the cable as short as possible.

@dover,

I am not at all interested in replacing the tone arm, I am very happy with the 1200G arm. The main reason I got this turntable is because my wife was comfortable using it, she wouldn’t touch my prior VPI Prime. For that reason alone, I will keep the turntable stock. I hadn’t heard that much about Discovery so I thought it was a cheap cable sold to VPI and then jacked up a couple hundred percent to make more money on it.


I plan on replacing my ZU modified DL-103 cartridge for a Dynavector DV20X2L cartridge and thought I would upgrade the cable at the same time. If the cable I am using is more than good enough then I’ll keep what I have. This is the first generation cable that was $300 for the meter pair with ground, not the newer more expensive one they sell now.

@stereo5 
Remember that $300 20 years ago was quite a lot in todays terms - The Absolute Sound regarded Discovery cable as phenomenal performance value back in the day.

You might get a cable with different spectral balance for $600 but I suspect no better. Maybe spend more on cartridge - check out the Soundsmith range - they are superbly musical and you can buy medium/high compliance versions to optimise with your Technics tonearm. I have used top of the line Dynavectors/Koetsu's for years, but would be very happy with Soundsmith MI.

Do you know how to solder?