I bought the Ultimate Cable , and it is nice quality. I have not used it yet. I also liked his cable design explanation. You can buy from his web site, or he sells on Audiogon. Mine seemed a bit cheaper, but is the straight DIN. Ultimate only makes a few different cable types, which allows him to concentrate on those, and claims to keep the cost down.
Best budget DIN phono cable? Too many to choose
I'm thinking of getting another KAB SL-1200 and might just have Kevin do the Cardas DIN connector as part of the tonearm rewire.
I'd need a right-angle Cardas DIN terminated cable and have looked at one available on E-Bay, one from Ultimate Cables in Canada, another from Extremephono, and, of course, there's always Signal Cable's Silver Resolution series too:
- E-Bay/SLC Silver Tonearm Cable: 26-guage silver plated OFC with Eichman Bullets - $199
- Ultimate Cable Silver Series C4 Tonearm Cable: 22-guage 50% 99.999 pure silver and 50% 99.999% oxygen free copper coated in Teflon with Neutrik RCAs - $145
- Extremephono Crimson: doesn't specify materials or guage other than it's copper (big help...). It appears to be a Jelco JAC-502 that Extremephono is importing (LP Gear also sells this cable as the LP Gear Soar T3). They emphasize that it's designed specifically for use with MC carts - which may work well with my Dyna 20XL. Proprietary DIN and RCAs - $159
- Signal Cable Silver Resolution Reference Phono/Tonearm Cable: 24-guage 5N multi-strand pure silver with Eichman Silver Bullets - $229
My gut says just go with Frank's Silver Resolution cable, but the cheapskate in me says try the Ultimate Cable C4 and save $85!
Any thoughts?
I'd need a right-angle Cardas DIN terminated cable and have looked at one available on E-Bay, one from Ultimate Cables in Canada, another from Extremephono, and, of course, there's always Signal Cable's Silver Resolution series too:
- E-Bay/SLC Silver Tonearm Cable: 26-guage silver plated OFC with Eichman Bullets - $199
- Ultimate Cable Silver Series C4 Tonearm Cable: 22-guage 50% 99.999 pure silver and 50% 99.999% oxygen free copper coated in Teflon with Neutrik RCAs - $145
- Extremephono Crimson: doesn't specify materials or guage other than it's copper (big help...). It appears to be a Jelco JAC-502 that Extremephono is importing (LP Gear also sells this cable as the LP Gear Soar T3). They emphasize that it's designed specifically for use with MC carts - which may work well with my Dyna 20XL. Proprietary DIN and RCAs - $159
- Signal Cable Silver Resolution Reference Phono/Tonearm Cable: 24-guage 5N multi-strand pure silver with Eichman Silver Bullets - $229
My gut says just go with Frank's Silver Resolution cable, but the cheapskate in me says try the Ultimate Cable C4 and save $85!
Any thoughts?