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Upgrading Turntable RCA cables?

So I opened up my vintage Luxman direct drive (PD282), changed the interconnects to a set of good quality shielded interconnect cables. They are my unused Belden 1505f (versatile video cable - supposing this was perfect for tonearm to phonostage interconnects; low capacitance 17PF/feet)

And Wala! Not only is annoying hum/ hiss issue solved, there was even a tad improvement in sound! Once again thank you for providing your inputs and advice. Much appreciated. Cheers!
 
Howard (hakaplan) on here has a cable comparison, very detailed. I believe the gist of it is to use short as possible VIDEO component cables (Petra brand comes to mind) as they have the lowest capacitance. On my Technics SL-D3 the difference was huge.

This is good advice, trying searching "hakaplan and belkin" to locate these threads; think the discussions date back three or four years.
 
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