No issues, billwojo. Just experienced enough to know every connection is a discontinuity, and a weakness. In fact if you read my post again it is about connections.
There is simply no getting around it. Now at this point I could say it sounds like you have had some issues with sound quality getting in the way of convenience. But I won’t.
As for me, the one thing I have learned over the years is the fewer connections the better.Tone arms happen to be the example we are talking about, but there’s a reason I worded it the way I did: the fewer the connections the better applies to everything.
There is simply no getting around it. Now at this point I could say it sounds like you have had some issues with sound quality getting in the way of convenience. But I won’t.