Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Andy Hewitt wrote:
First, I've bought an old Technics SL-1800 off eBay, which I'm very
happy with, but I was wondering if it's desirable/possible to upgrade
the interconnect cable. This is a hard wired cable on this, as seems to
be the way with turntables, but the one on there is very old, and
looking a bit tired.

I shall be using a nice thick interconnect between the Phono amp and the
main amp (only has Aux input), and of course with gold plated
connectors. But this almost seems a waste if the turntable connectors
are old and tarnished.

Pickup wiring - because of the high source impedance on MM types - is one
of the few cases where changing the cable can make a real difference to
the sound. So you really need to use similar spec cable to the original -
and of the same length.

Hmm, right. Does that include the cable from the preamp to the main amp
too?

But a better way is to build in a pre-amp at the turntable with a low
impedance output so interconnect cables have no effect.

I don't think there's an easy way to do that, although I could shorten
the leads from the deck to the preamp (I have a new one coming with no
built in leads), and then run longer leads to the main amp from there.

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Andy Hewitt
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