Tonearm cable advice

[MrOtto]

Hi
What's a good tonearm cable, maker or cabletype, audioscience wise (capacitance, noise rejection, resistance)? Turntable: Kenwood KD-550, MM cartridge, RCA/DIN.
This uses a Canare starquad cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Canare-min...354684?hash=item4b562d457c:g:6lcAAOSwKM1b-taS
Canare has a good reputation, but is this cable type (looks like L-4E5C?) the most optimal type?

 

[Tom C]

Are you replacing an existing cable? If so, what’s in the now, and what problems are you wanting to solve?

 

[MrOtto]

It's a 40 year old cable with loose RCA plugs I'm looking to replace.

 

[Tom C]

Please understand, I’m not the expert source you’d probably like to hear from here. But until someone like that comes along to answer, I’ll give my 2 cents.
It sounds like the existing cable gave forty years of acceptable service. That’s about as much as a person can ask. You know that the type that was in there worked with everything else you have (tonearm’s design, cartridge type, phono stage, etc.) so unless there’s a particular problem you’d like to solve, my own inclination wold be to replace it with something that is as close to the existing cable as is possible to find.

 

[Chrispy]

You need just the rca cable or tonearm cabling?

 

[MrOtto]

Not cables for the headshell, but the complete cable from the tonearm plug (DIN) to the amplifier (RCA).

 

[MrOtto]

Mogami mini has low capacitance and is affordable.
https://www.shop.back-promo.co.uk/Mogami_Mini_Starquad/p4417238_16880895.aspx

Not seeing Belden 1800F beeing used anywhere, very low capacitance.
https://catalog.belden.com/index.cfm?event=pd&p=PF_1800F

 

[Jas0_0]

I just bought a custom cable from Yannis Tome. He might have what you’re looking for, and was really helpful and gave great advice.

This might be what you need:

https://www.shop.back-promo.co.uk/DIN-RCA_Phono_cables/cat4417239_3840766.aspx

 

[MrOtto]

Thanks. I have looked on that page. Seems like the right place. Also Blue Jeans Cables could make one using BJC MSA-1 cable.

 

[deniall83]

Just get a Blue Jeans LC-1 with ground lead. You don’t need anything else. They can do din connections too if you want them.