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Phono cable build question

I’m replacing the phono cables on my Technics 1200 and have decided to use cable that has two conductors and is shielded. My question is what do I do with the shield?

When making regular interconnects with shielded cable, I normally solder the shield to the negative conductor and only on the source side of the cable. Do I do the same with phono cables? I thought maybe I might instead solder the ground wire to the shield, not to negative, and also have a separate traditional ground wire go to the preamp ground terminal.
kommanderkurt

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kommanderkurt OP
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Thanks cleeds- so I connect the shield of the phono cable to the negative at the preamp side, not the phono side?
kommanderkurt OP
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sleepwalker65 - what I’m asking is how exactly would you build them? I tried understanding what you’ve already written but, as I’m a novice, I’m a bit confused. Do you solder the shields of the interconnect cables to anything? If so, to what and where?
kommanderkurt OP
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Hi sleepwalker65- So I attach the black ground wire from the tt to the preamp chassis as normal.  Then, on the preamp end of the phono cables I cut the shield off and do not solder to anything.  But on the tt end, I twist and solder each shield together and run it to the origin of the black ground wire and solder it there. Is that correct? Thanks 🙏🏽 Kurt 
kommanderkurt OP
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Thank you all for your input. I appreciate you taking your valuable time to do so. 🙏🏽
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