Is tonearm cable the most important cable in the system ?


Opinions ?
In the case of my Nottingham it goes from the cartridge right into the phono. It is not shielded, I guess, and there is nothing I can do to improve it. Not that it is bad, I think it's quite good.
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25 yrs ago I let a pro rewire my SME III w/ Van den Hul MCS-300 pure silver path from cart pins to phono inputs. It made a HUGE improvement to the already superb arm (designed especially to HC carts), dynamics and details/nuances and the high registerd in particular got much refined and not showing even a hint of harshness. But I must point out that silver wire instantly reveals faults such as sibilance w/ your carts or your records. Then I realized that the extremely low voltage output from a cartridge needs and deserves nothing but the best quality wires available... I haven ´t looked back since.

I also use Trans-Fi audio´s linear airbearing arm w/ uninterrupted silver path from cart pins to phono input (125 cm to be exact).

I bought a pair of the KLEI Absolute Harmony RCA’s (that I will send Vic at Trans-Fi soon) on the ends of the 1-piece silver loom with which he will wire my Terminator Arm aluminium wand. Regards and thanks bdp24 :)