Phono cable advice.

Just picked up a Lounge Audio LCR MKIII w/silver upgrade. I’m looking forward to trying the cables. I already have the burned in AS Impact SE and the DH Labs. Just waiting on the Jelco and Zu Audio Mission V1.

Thanks again to all for the great advice on some options to try.

GroverHuffman.com made silver very low capacitance phono cables 20 years ago for $75.  Mr Record, Robert Pincus (IMPEX, swears by them).  No, they are not the end all SOTA cables but they have a mid-range sound that is excellent, good bass and treble extension, open and detail sounding.  Contact him for a pair under $150 (although he would try to persuade someone to purchase this superior phono-cables).   I bought his cables 20 years ago and was satisfied with them then and consider them a bargain for how good they sound today (I've got the Pharoahs now at $750-see his site for the Empress description at half that price). 

By knowing the capacitance per foot, you can incorporate the total number of pF’s into your calculation of the capacitance load on the cartridge.

I do not have to go crazy to do any calculation; I always just search the phono cable with the lowest capacity per meter;  to all this we think the Xono and Pioneer C21 to offer me the necessary settings available to compensate for the lack of pF.

best-groove, Please compare my comment that you quoted to your comment.  I hope you'll see we are in complete agreement with respect to the desired endpoint, which is to know approximately how much capacitance your phono cable adds.  Without knowing that, you cannot dial in the remainder of the recommended total, using your phono stage(s).  Going crazy is not necessary, I agree.

@lewm   ooops...sorry!

I misunderstood your writing.