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Grounding a turntable and a tonearm

As I learn about the world if high end audio I hit moments I feel really dumb and this is one of them.  So I have a SOTA Sapphire VI turntable and a Audiomods tonearm.  I have the ground that comes out tonearm going to the Phono stage ground post.  But I am having a nightmare time with static and popping etc on the turntable and someone said I have not grounded the turntable.

Well looking under the turntable there is a ground post.  So I have two grounds and I am not sure the right way to wire this!  Do I wire the tone arm into the ground on the turntable, and then run a wire to the phono stage, do I run two wires to the phono stage, whichI think could cause a ground loop?  Do I take the turntable ground somewhere else?  Just trying to figure all this out.  

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@justinrphillips 

The standard SOTA armboard is MDF and non conductive, so the tonearm ground and TT ground cannot form a ground loop.

I would connect both the arm ground and TT ground to the phono grounding post.

You can get carbon fibre brushes with anti static properties to help remove any static build up in the record prior to playing. I use one from Analog Relax.

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