Kimber Kable TAK Ag Tonearm Cable - 0.5 Meter - RCA

TAK Ag at Half a Meter — the Shortest Run Kimber Makes

This is Kimber Kable's TAK Ag tonearm cable at 0.5 meters, sold each, RCA terminated. It is the shortest run in the range, for a phono stage sitting immediately beside or beneath the turntable. Ag is silver.

Half a meter is short for an interconnect and deliberately so. A phono signal is the smallest in a system, capacitance rises with length, and where the two boxes genuinely sit together there is no reason to run more cable than the gap requires.

OCQ/2 Braiding and Proprietary Shielding

Fit and Materials

0.5 meters, RCA to RCA. It suits a phono stage directly beside or below the turntable — measure the route before choosing it, because half a meter disappears quickly once the cable has to drop behind a plinth and rise again.

Kimber's OCQ/2 braid — Orthogonal GyroQuadratic, two channel — is the company's answer to interference. Braiding the conductors so they cross at right angles means induced noise arrives on both sides of the pair equally and cancels, which is why Kimber can claim it virtually eliminates electromagnetic and radio interference along with crosstalk.

Beyond the braid, Kimber uses a proprietary shielding material that it says drastically reduces low-frequency hum. On a phono cable that matters more than on any other interconnect: the signal is the smallest in the system and hum is its constant companion.

Who Is This Cable Best For?

• Your phono stage is right next to the deck — the case half a meter is cut for
• You want the shortest run you can get — less cable, less capacitance for the cartridge to drive
• You want silver conductors — Ag rather than the copper TAK Cu
• Your junction box presents RCAs — RCA at both ends
• Your run is longer than it looks — measure the route; the one-meter version is in tonearm cables

What Length Do You Need?

Measure the path the cable will take rather than the gap it crosses, and allow enough slack that it hangs rather than pulls. Terminations are fixed, so check what your arm presents before ordering.

Pairs Well With

What most owners fitting a tonearm cable shop next.

• Phono preamplifiers — the other end of this cable, and the bigger variable
• Phono cartridges — the signal source everything downstream is serving
• Cartridge alignment tools — geometry first; no cable fixes a misaligned cartridge
• Tonearm cables — the other lengths and terminations in the range

Frequently Asked Questions

How many do I need?

One. A turntable takes a single tonearm cable, and this is sold each.

Is half a meter long enough?

Only if the two boxes are genuinely adjacent. Measure the path the cable must follow — down behind the plinth, across, and up again — rather than the straight-line gap, which is always shorter.

Do I still need the ground wire?

Yes. A tonearm cable carries the signal; the separate ground strap carries the chassis connection that keeps hum out. Connect it before deciding anything is wrong with the cable.

What does OCQ/2 braiding do?

It crosses the conductors at right angles so induced interference arrives equally on both sides of the pair and cancels. Kimber uses it to address electromagnetic interference, radio interference and crosstalk together.

Will it fit an arm with captive leads?

No cable will. An arm wired straight through to fitted RCA leads has nothing to unplug, so changing the cable there means rewiring the arm itself.

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