Mine has about a foot of very fine wires coming out of the arm, all with clear coat. Those wires go into another foot or so of flat braided wire, also clear coated. The braided wire is terminated with beautiful Tiffany RCA plugs. If this is, as I suspect, VdH wire, I must have requested the RCA plug terminations in place of RCA jacks on a block (for interconnects). I may even have sent you the Tiffany plugs with which to do so! I have always thought those jacks were a bad idea---making a break and reconnection in such a small-voltage signal-path location, with the consequential signal-degradation from the resistance and boundary crossing the tiny phono cartridge signal encounters. When I had Brooks Berdan rewire my Rega 300 with CARDAS wire, cartridge clips, and RCA plugs, I had him give me a little extra length so the arm could go straight into my pre-amp jacks. I really don't understand why terminal blocks are standard on so many high-performance arms and tables, VPI for one. Except that it allows one to run long shielded interconnects to a not-so-close pre-amp. Which is one good reason for having an RIAA phono amp directly beside or under your arm and table, with cables from it to your line stage pre-amp..