I honestly think you are over-analyzing the situation. Most modern cables are made with low resistance and capacitance, so just pick up a modestly-priced cable from Signal Cable, Morrow or Clear Day and forget about it for now. By far, one of the most common complaints by audiophiles is harshness, so I think you’ll have nothing to worry about in the reproduction of high frequencies. Just get your system up and running and later on you can focus on some new cables to fine tune your system if necessary.
System Cable Capacitance Question from a New Audiophile
Hey all, first discussion started here. I want to start off by saying that I have learned so much from reading these forums and that I appreciate the awesome collective knowledge that this community is comprised of.
I am a young audiophile transforming my system from an integrated peachtree nova 150 to separates. A little background, my speakers are kef LS50s, powered by a red dragon audio s500 power amp. I just removed my peachtree from the chain and inserted a humble schiit sys to use as a volume control directly into my s500 and the sound opened up significantly. I will upgrade the preamp eventually but am focusing elsewhere at this point.
I am not worried about the cable between the s500 and the sys, but the cables between the sys and my DAC/phono pre. My primary concern is choosing a cable that won't eliminate any of the high frequency audio information through the passive. Lets brake up the two sides of the system.
Digital: My DAC is a metrum amethyst which I was assured by metrum would output more than the specified voltage into my power amp so I am not worried there. However what are some general guidelines for the capacitance of a single ended cable? The run will be 1m.
Analogue: I have a rega planar 2 with a nagaoka mp200 cartridge running through a project tube box s. Any guidelines for the cable running from the phono pre to my sys?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried kimber PBJ cables and some morrow audio cables, so looking to keep the interconnect price under 300 each if I can. I would like to upgrade the rca connectors as I have found really great sonic improvement with doing that.
Thanks!
I am a young audiophile transforming my system from an integrated peachtree nova 150 to separates. A little background, my speakers are kef LS50s, powered by a red dragon audio s500 power amp. I just removed my peachtree from the chain and inserted a humble schiit sys to use as a volume control directly into my s500 and the sound opened up significantly. I will upgrade the preamp eventually but am focusing elsewhere at this point.
I am not worried about the cable between the s500 and the sys, but the cables between the sys and my DAC/phono pre. My primary concern is choosing a cable that won't eliminate any of the high frequency audio information through the passive. Lets brake up the two sides of the system.
Digital: My DAC is a metrum amethyst which I was assured by metrum would output more than the specified voltage into my power amp so I am not worried there. However what are some general guidelines for the capacitance of a single ended cable? The run will be 1m.
Analogue: I have a rega planar 2 with a nagaoka mp200 cartridge running through a project tube box s. Any guidelines for the cable running from the phono pre to my sys?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried kimber PBJ cables and some morrow audio cables, so looking to keep the interconnect price under 300 each if I can. I would like to upgrade the rca connectors as I have found really great sonic improvement with doing that.
Thanks!