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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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tomic601
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I believe IF his detractors took a step back from English as your perhaps first and last language, Pindac adds a lot of introspective value. 

He is asking about isolation foremost. To the OP what does the VPI live on ?
 

I have a 2nd table 5M away from my linestage and until recently into same Goldnote you have except with the remote supply  Cable is XLR made w Neutrik and AQ Coral cable. Some DIT…but under $500… My 40# Denon floats on mag lev footers and sits on a several hundred # cabinet.

So in summary Sort isolation, then XLR…. 

Enjoy the music

Jim

missioncoonery OP
1,250 posts
 

My VPI table has under it an oak table as the base. Stands about 3 feet off the floor..on top of it a 4 inch butherblock that has footers under it...on top of it is  2 inch piece of plexiglass again with footers. The table sits on this ...the gold note has its own stand similar sitting to the left side of the table...I don't expect this to sound as good as my digital but if I can improve things the better..

gano
750 posts
 

do you have a record cleaning machine?

kennyc
1,993 posts
 

+1 @gano - maybe a hummingbird ultrasonic record cleaning machine

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