Cables and output
1) I've got my nice, shiny, new Gatorized Caiman DAC but I haven't yet bought the phono cables. Mark Grant cables were recommended but, looking at his website, the cheapest is around £70! So, does computer -> Squeezebox -> Caiman -> Quad Elite warrant £70 for the phono cables?
2) The Caiman has both fixed and variable outputs. The fixed output is designed to connect to a CD input. This input doesn't exist on the Quad Pre as the CD input is handled by the QuadLink cable. To allow the Quad to do as much of the interpretation as possible, is it better to put the Caiman's fixed output into an auxilliary input or use the Caiman's variable output (in which case, what's the recommendation for the volume level?)
Anthony
Quad ESL57s; Quad Elite pre-amp, mono amps, cd; Arcam T32; Michel Gyro SE (Denon DL-103R cartridge)