Good quallty, thin RCA cables for turntable?

[Roypercy]

Hi all: I'm just about finished (I think!) refurbishing a Philips 209S turntable. I have replaced the DIN cable with RCA cables. I used a very old pair of TEAC RCAs I had lying around, because the opening for the original DIN cable in the thick plastic base of the Philips was quite small. However, I foolishly didn't test the RCA cables and once I got it all hooked up, one of them had a short right by the male plug.

I've rewired a lot of turntables. I always use quality RCA cables, which invariably means thicker than vintage cables. In some cases (as in the Philips 212 I just re-cabled) I've drilled through a wooden plinth to make a hole big enough to accommodate modern, thicker cables.

However, the Philips 209S has a solid, hard plastic base that completely covers the bottom and sides of the turntable. There is a hole to rin the original cable through, with kind of a little maze for strain relief just inside the table. I really, really don't want to try to drill, or cut, or melt my way through the base of the 209S to make room for bigger cables.

Can anyone recommend a decent-quality cable that would also be roughly similar in diameter as those thin, very basic RCA cables that you could buy at Radio Shack?

 

[justjed2]

I got a 3ft DIN-to-RCA cable, with a ground wire, from Blue Jeans Cables. The DIN connector has a metal body, and the cable is a smaller diameter than the stock cable on my Denon DP-1700. Not exactly cheap, about $50, but it might work in your situation.

 

[lini]

(...) I have replaced the DIN cable with RCA cables. I used a very old pair of TEAC RCAs I had lying around, because the opening for the original DIN cable in the thick plastic base of the Philips was quite small. (...)

Was the original cable a single round cable or rather a twin cable? Over here in Europe the manufacturers not rarely used twin cable types, which in Germany typically are called "Diodenkabel" and typically have a size around 6 x 3 mm (like for example this one offered by Kabeltronik: Diodenleitung - kabeltronik - Elektronik- & Industriekabel / Audio- & Videokabel) - so if you'd look for something similar, you could look for Mogami W2947, which is originally intended for separate Y/C video (S-Video), but would also work as replacement for such Diodenkabel types - and which you could terminate for example with Amphenol ACPR RCA plugs. No idea, whether Ratshack would offer that W2947 (or anything similar), though.

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

 

[Roypercy]

I got a 3ft DIN-to-RCA cable, with a ground wire, from Blue Jeans Cables. The DIN connector has a metal body, and the cable is a smaller diameter than the stock cable on my Denon DP-1700. Not exactly cheap, about $50, but it might work in your situation.

Thanks, but I already removed the DIN and soldered an RCA cable in its place. I prefer that solution to using an adapter.

 

[mcgjohn]

if you look for older A/V cables that had the yellow, red, white combo cables, the yellow RCA cables for video usually make good phono RCA cables since their shielding was far superior to most of the audio patch cables. They can be found pretty inexpensively.