CUTTING DOWN A TONEARM CABLE


Is there any reason why a tonearm cable cannot be cut down to a shorter length? - I have too much length on my tonearm cables

lohanimal

Showing 3 responses by oldhvymec

No, unless there is, and then of course there would be. You'll get a lot of these kinds of responses. :-)

No, just make sure if they are shielded to hook everything up the way they had it before. I've made quite a few pairs and singles for a mono unit or two.

Good luck.

Yup, it’s got to be low, when it get shorter it gets lower, pretty simple.. :-)

I’ve never heard anyone say "make one longer it makes no difference"..

Like I said it’s not hard to make good RCAs. If they are already good, you’re not going to make them sound worse or add some flavor unless you use crap solder and crappy terminal ends. You can make good cables better or worse..

Pay attention, you’ll be fine.. Are you running a low output MC cart? It can only get better unless you make it worse.. LOL

Choppers remorse.. Be bold.. Go for it.. :-)

Regards

MC your a party pooper! :-) Take the fun out of a fart. LOL

I’ve fixed a lot of hums, that’s for sure. But I don’t run 10 different kinds of Tonearms either. I’m a SME guy from way back. I ran a lot of Grados too, they were known to make noise. I fixed them all unless there was a cart winding failure. When I would inspect 90% of the time it was a very tiny frayed tube wire or a single stray just close enough to cause problems but almost impossible to see.

A sniffer will find it, if you screw up any ways.. I’ll find the schemo on how to build one.. They work great.. Can work for a noisy tubes too. What about that? Just  need to be able to check your work..