Phono Box Advice Needed


Advice needed: Has anybody actually used a higher quality phono box, e.g., Cardas, to allow rca interconnect experimentation? It seems this method would allow for auditioning a number of interconnects before purchasing a more difficult to re-sell DIN/RCA terminated cable that may not work in a system.
dem
The Cardas you mention is really nice. Add the Harmonic Technology and Hovland to your list. I used to run a Koetsu Black gold line in a Well Tempered Arm and can vividly remember how great it was and that was ten years ago! Welcome back, the game begins anew.
Marty
I used a Graham interface box( I think Cardas made it), with my Graham arm, for years. I purchased a Cardas Neutral Reference phonocable, so I no longer needed it. I do not know, how much impact, it made on the sound, but I do know, it allowed me to audition, different makers cables easily.
It has only been in the last few years, that a manufacturers phono cable, was different, from his interconnect, in internal construction. Nothing says, that a cable, made for whatever, cannot sound marvelous, in your system, in any application. The hobby is crazy, and only your ears, and your tastes, count.
Did you ever buy a phono interface box? Did it improve the sound? I'm tying to kill a hum/shielding problem in a audiophile DIN-RCA phono cable. I'm hoping the box would kill the hum and not the sound.

Jon
Hi Jon,
Actually, I bought a number of phono interconnects and A/B'd them...I ended up with a Harmonic Tech phono cable. Good luck on isolating the hum.
Regards,
Dave