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Best way to spend my money

A digital guy asking the analog group basically so bare with me please...right now i have a VPI scout 2 with a high output Benz mc cartridge....going into a Gold note ph10...a 15 foot run of rca cable into a Pass labs int60...my table is set along a sidewall be cause of no room for the table around the rack.....So my questions is this...I have a grand to spend..should I buy a power supply for my phono amp...should I get a better  low output mc cartridge.. or should I buy xlr cables to run from phono to the integrated...I hear a promise of better things to come and I have no expectations to better my digital setup...thanks

missioncoonery

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lewm
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I have used AntiCables interconnects for years, when I don’t want to make my own. Very good bang for the buck. Also I’d look at the “used” market. Cables don’t wear out.

lewm
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Many responders do not seem to realize that the OP is running 15 foot cables NOT between his TT and his phono stage (bad idea) but between his phono stage and linestage. That is perfectly OK, but since they are both balanced devices, it seems remiss not to be connecting them with a 15 foot pair of balanced, XLR terminated cables, as I mentioned before and as others have mentioned since. But spending a kilobuck on either the outboard Goldnote PS or a better cartridge are both also good ways to spend.  I would not buy an LOMC cartridge, if $1000 was my spending limit. I'd go MI or MM but definitely not HOMC.

lewm
13,708 posts
 

The 15 footer is carrying high level signal from the Goldnote, the way I read it. Anyway the Goldnote and Pass are both balanced so you ought to be using a 15 foot balanced cable between them with XLR termination. 

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