Help! My Magnepan tonearm finally needs to be rewired!
Hi gang,
I love this tonearm, but it has become quite noisy. I believe it needs to be rewired. Do any of you know of a business (or individual) who can do this for me? I hate to give up the arm -- it's otherwise really good, and in good condition.
Thanks!!
This seems to be a bigger problem than I thought when I bought a Unitrac. The rewire job can be done, but I'm not sure who. I picked up this arm on Mosin's recommendation. He's the guy who makes the Saskia table. He has a couple of Unitracs rewired, but .... There's an easy answer to this problem, but it requires drilling a small hole in the back of the armtube just in front of the pivot. Have the wire exit there instead of the bottom of the pillar. You could have one length of wire going to the preamp or use connectors on the table plinth. My original wire is still working fine, but it would be nice to eliminate the plug in connector at the back of the headshell. fleib |
I am having a problem with my unitrac also. I hear static if i move the tonearm across the album for another song. Once I hear the static and drop the needle I lose one channel or it is still there but very faint your ear has to be on it the speaker. It seems like about second song in to about the next to last song and then the channel comes back. I have read they don't make 44 gauge Lintz wire anymore but what about this link. I have found others also. Has anyone rewired one before or have a step by step procedure? http://mwswire.com/specialty-wire/litz-wire/ |
An employee of mine worked at Magnaplanar. According to him, there is a burr in the arm tube where the wires have to make an angle to go through the bearing area. Sooner or later the burr damages the wire- in short (no pun intended) they all do something like this sooner or later. IMO its a bit more work than just replacing the wire- the arm should be disassembled and the burr removed first. |
