Record Player - Phono Preamp cable recs….

@whyrichard 

Vivid hallucinatory presence… 

Magic mushrooms maybe?

If I were you I’d probably just go for another pair of Fidelium interconnects as they seem to be working for you.  But for a cheaper option and given what you’re looking for I’d also recommend these used Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II interconnects that excel at neutral and natural detail/air with very good tonality (especially for a silver cable) and excellent imaging with an expansive 3D soundstage.  What they will not do is add warmth so if that’s what you’re looking for I’d go elsewhere, but at this price if they don’t work out you can easily sell them for little/no loss so very low risk to try and about half the price of new Fideliums.  Best of luck. 

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650236204-acoustic-zen-silver-reference-ii-interconnect-cables-rca-1-meter/

I'm not a huge fan of Music Hall tts. So that's where I'd put the $...on a better tt.

DIN > RCA is quite limiting in the selections for Cable Types that can be made.

RCA > RCA extends the options on Cable Types and choices exponentially. 

You have a cartridge that my friend owned and we expected to love it, sadly neither of us liked it. I think you should go for one with superior specs for imaging, i.e. both wider channel separation and especially tight center balance, i.e. o.5db

He was given it as a gift, lacked a Step Up Transformer, couldn’t play it, so I hooked it up here, broke it in around 50 hrs, it never sounded exceptional to either one of us. He bought a SUT, tried it in his system, same lack of enthusiasm. Other cartridges sound much more involving in both of our systems, they are both quite revealing.

New, I was buying boron cantilevers, I got lucky with a used sapphire tube on a Sumiko Talisman S sounds terrific here and there. Shapes, I have Shibata, SAS, Microlinear, brands Sumiko, Shure, AT, Grace, and friends bring their cartridges here, I should start keeping a list. I’ve convinced myself I can hear differences, it’s easy when someone else agrees, but I know we can hear what we want to hear, I try to protect myself from that.

The last few years I started taking risks on used cartridges, both MC and lately MM, and am extremely happy with vintage AT160ML, because of it’s beryllium cantilever and Microline Stylus. I bought two from this seller, found NOS in Australia (broke it like an idiot), and just bought a spare via Yahoo.Japan auctions.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266426386882?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338381866&toolid=10001&customid=77915964-9bd3-11f0-9daa-356436643765

I have VAS check them before I play them, so far getting lucky.

Oh, I almost forgot, it tracks at nominal 1.25g which is another reason I use it rather than my MC's which track at 2.0g, I loved my shure V15Vxmr that tracked at nominal 1.0g. A member here tracks his AT160ml at 1.0g, I simply stay in the middle of the range given.