Hello Al,
Thank you for your kind offer. I will take you up on that.
Some months after the system is set up, hopefully sometime this decade, I will explore expensive cables by swapping in and out the XLR interconnects between the phono stage and the line stage.
The expensive cable candidates are Cardas Clear Beyond, Iconoclast 4x4 OCC and MasterBuilt Ultra. (Network boxes won't fit through the in-wall conduits, so any cable with a network box is automatically disqualified.)
I'm not looking forward personally to cable comparisons, but there simply is no avoiding them. Hopefully the LA boys + the Long Beach boys will assist me in a vote.
Maybe the sonic differences between cables will be more apparent than I assume, in which the endeavor will be easier than I presently suspect. Maybe I won't be able to tell any differences at all, in which case I can stay with Mogami.
The winner of the one meter interconnect competition likely will win the grand prize of the 50 foot interconnect assignment.
Thank you, again.