After numerous requests, the decision was made to add the items to the standard Isonoe catalogue. If you are looking for a low cost tonearm cable, I would think the Jelco would be very tough to beat, even at four or five times the price.Isonoe has been manufacturing and supplying components for turntable conversions to professional users since 2004. I did end up having mine cryoed and burned in on an Audiodharma cable cooker (the Cardas cable I had also had been treated that way). The Jelco is an absolute steal and also noticeably better than the Cardas I linked to above. Mine is the balanced version so a bit more money around $140 but the single ended (either straight or 90 degree din-mine is straight and works fine with my Gyro) is availabable around $100. On a lark a couple of months ago I bought the Jelco tonearm cable just as a cheap experiment. The Van den Hul MCD 502 phono cable that I have that dates back to the late 80's is indeed an absolute piece of crap.īuilt by Gene at Takefiveaudio a few years ago and the Takefive Cardas cable was significantly better. It's amazing to me how difference good cabling makes, particularly from the tonearm to the phono stage! I beginning to think David Salz of Wireworld is right, a number of the problems we think we hear with our stereo components are due to colorations and distortions caused by the cables/interfaces. The mids are dark and the highs are bright, the bass is wooly and loose, and there isn't much openness, clarity or soundstage depth. I didn't think it was possible for a cable to be dark AND bright, but it is. Well, I got as far as about 1 LP this stock cable is dreadful. I remember it being unimpressive, but I wanted to be able to listen to LPs. In meantime, I dug out the SME V stock Van den Hul tonearm cable from the arm box and hooked it up tonight, spun up an LP and listened.
The Grover's phono cable I use for my late 80s-vintage SME V tonearm recently developed developed a nasty hum due to a short or break in the ground lead near the tonearm DIN plug end (more on that later) I will have to send it back to Grover for repair.
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