Truly amazed

doubt if they will beat your tomjive's mate, I have a 2m pair you can borrow?

Can anyone with the grey cables tell me what colour the plug inserts are.I have a pair of red and blue which are the double sheilded ones.I also have a quad sheilde one with a yellow insert.Are folks using two yellows as interconnects.The yellow is a co-ax.The red and blue have directional markers...they sound really good.

Tony,
As you've found out for yourself, this is very confusing - I don't think it's enough to describe them just as the grey ones & the white ones!
From my experience:

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Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo

Just to add a little more thickener to your plot:

The grey 1 metre ones I have (single run) of which I bought 10 to make up 5 stereo pairs are different again.
Bad scan I'm afraid - the only ones I have left with the diagram are still fully packaged up. But you can just make out a single drain wire which doesn't feature on your ones.

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/3183/imgdl.jpg

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.........yes these have the yellow inserts. I've paired them up to make stereo sets. I also have several pairs (5 of these too, actually) of the white type as described in the original post.

The red and blue sound smashing in my system.Ive ordered up another yellow to give it a go as a pair,99p.....I got a bundle deal with another pair or red and blue for all in £8.About the price of one days smoking...magic.

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Originally Posted by Mains Cables R Us

doubt if they will beat your tomjive's mate, I have a 2m pair you can borrow?

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Thanks David,l tried the cables between the Mini-T and the Harbs and they reminded me a bit of the Mark Grant cables l have- very clear with good tonal colour( l am a freak for this) sounded pretty good, then tried the Belkin between my Jungson amp and the Harbs-WOW! This sounds reall really good, great timing, clarity, detail, and tonal colour is off the chart and the soundstage is wide open, me likey:cool:

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Thanks David,l tried the cables between the Mini-T and the Harbs and they reminded me a bit of the Mark Grant cables l have- very clear with good tonal colour( l am a freak for this) sounded pretty good, then tried the Belkin between my Jungson amp and the Harbs-WOW! This sounds reall really good, great timing, clarity, detail, and tonal colour is off the chart and the soundstage is wide open, me likey:cool:

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you just need to get those shivas out of the system now mate and everything will be soooooo much better....:)

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Ooooo errrrrr just had a thought, has anyone tied making a tone-arm cable from these babies? Reason for asking is I have been messing about with different cables these last few days as I have my SME309 connected with the South West Analogue Pure Silver Litz Tone-Arm Cable into my Graham Slee phono stage and then tried various cables from Slee into my amp, ideally I need the same cable for both duties and again ideally I would choose the Oyaide option for both but at the moment I am jimmy flint so if a tone-arm lead could be made using the belkins and sound 1/2 way decent we could be onto a winner?

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Got the cable and had the same idea, on the SL1800 it may be a little tight though, so I was thinking about mounting a pair of female RCA's on the back so then i can plug em straight in:eyebrows: being a bit of a newb to TT's i wasn't sure if my idea was a sound one?

Hi Mike, as long as you still have the usual earth connection it should work fine chap. Make sure you use the normal cables rather than the semi balanced ones though ;)

The only misgivings i'd have about doing it is the rather low voltage output of a cartridge & more than just the one connector at the pre amp end. At the kind of voltages you are looking at the less connectors the better ;)

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The only misgivings i'd have about doing it is the rather low voltage output of a cartridge & more than just the one connector at the pre amp end. At the kind of voltages you are looking at the less connectors the better ;)

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That's what i was thinking, but that belkin cable is kinda thick and there really isn't enough room to bend it without putting strain on the internals of the TT, if i use good quality RCA connectors and cable to connect them to the arm it should be ok, if it isn't i can always revert back to the old lead.

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you just need to get those shivas out of the system now mate and everything will be soooooo much better....:)

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Why David?