I originally purchased VPI's phono cable with the purchase of my Scout TT. Detail was good, but there was this nagging hum in the background that I could never pinpoint. I found later that I was picking up 60 cycle house current because the cable was not properly shielded.
The solutions:
+ Purchased 2 pair of interconnects from the-music-cable.com(Has full copper shielding with locking RCA's)Stiff enough to hold out in front of you.Go see...
+ Grounded TT, phono pre-amp and tonearm base in the usual fashion to a copper rod driven 6 ft in the ground outside.
Now there is a dead quiet background providing a very musical top to bottom sound.
The solutions:
+ Purchased 2 pair of interconnects from the-music-cable.com(Has full copper shielding with locking RCA's)Stiff enough to hold out in front of you.Go see...
+ Grounded TT, phono pre-amp and tonearm base in the usual fashion to a copper rod driven 6 ft in the ground outside.
Now there is a dead quiet background providing a very musical top to bottom sound.