Not being technical, I'll still offer some basic thoughts. Normally, the less connections you have in the chain, the better the sound, so adding another connection and interconnects could in theory adversely affect things. That's why many of us use a DIN connector directly from the tonearm to the phono preamp. If you think that using higher quality interconnects to replace the integrated cables would improve the sound, then cutting the old ones to attach them to the RCA jacks would seem to be the worst choice, since you still have the integrated cable in your signal chain, so why even get rid of it. Option 2 would be the better choice of your two options, using a higher quality cable than the integrated cable. But my choice would be to stay with what you have, I think that the difference in cable quality would not be enough to offset the additional connections. Just MHO.
Is this a bad idea? Replacing integrated RCA cables on turntable with RCA female jacks
Hi all, this is a repost from a thread I started last week under the Analog category, but i didn't get any replies so I figured "Tech Talk" might be the more appropriate forum to ask this question, and thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge in an area where I'm clueless.
Question:
I have a Denon DP31L turntable and was thinking I might cut small ports on the back of the housing to accommodate RCA jacks via one of two ways, which is where I need advice such as "stop now" or "such-and-such option is better bc..." Etc., etc. :)
Option #1) cutting the integrated/original RCA cable so it's just long enough to reach my jack cut-outs and then solder that cut end to female RCA jacks
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Option #2) remove entire original RCA cable from the circuitry, and solder a new new cable in its place to run to the RCA jacks.
Option #1 is preferred because I wouldn't have to re-solder new wires onto the circuitry. Is this a bad idea in general or not a big deal? Will either (or both) option have a drastic impact on the sound, for better or worse? I dont want want to downgrade the acoustics, but I would prefer to have RCA jacks for the convience factor of using different interconnects to run to my phono preamp.
Any advice would be much appreciated as always. Thanks so much!
Additional Note if you've actually made it this far:
If applicable to how you answer assume I'll be using quality RCA jacks, do a quality soldering job with Mundorf Supreme silver/gold solder, and appropriately ground everything during the modification (currently there is a separate ground wire that runs the length next to the 6’ integrated RCA cable)
Question:
I have a Denon DP31L turntable and was thinking I might cut small ports on the back of the housing to accommodate RCA jacks via one of two ways, which is where I need advice such as "stop now" or "such-and-such option is better bc..." Etc., etc. :)
Option #1) cutting the integrated/original RCA cable so it's just long enough to reach my jack cut-outs and then solder that cut end to female RCA jacks
------------------or---------------
Option #2) remove entire original RCA cable from the circuitry, and solder a new new cable in its place to run to the RCA jacks.
Option #1 is preferred because I wouldn't have to re-solder new wires onto the circuitry. Is this a bad idea in general or not a big deal? Will either (or both) option have a drastic impact on the sound, for better or worse? I dont want want to downgrade the acoustics, but I would prefer to have RCA jacks for the convience factor of using different interconnects to run to my phono preamp.
Any advice would be much appreciated as always. Thanks so much!
Additional Note if you've actually made it this far:
If applicable to how you answer assume I'll be using quality RCA jacks, do a quality soldering job with Mundorf Supreme silver/gold solder, and appropriately ground everything during the modification (currently there is a separate ground wire that runs the length next to the 6’ integrated RCA cable)