Tonearm Wire

OK. So today we took it apart. Replaced with the old tonearm shielded wires and put in RCA outs to the back of the turntable.

No hum! But the RCA;s that connect it need to be shielded RCA's. The white lightnings produce hum.

So if your trying this at home....remember.....phono needs to be shielded.

Unless someone else knows a better way :-)

You dont know it but a huge thanks to everyone on this forum!

I have read through so many posts and used so much info.....

Thanks!

db

Ya' know. I like this kind of stuff but it would really help if you would fill in some of the missing information. Like what cartridge, what tonearm, what table, what is the rest of the system?

16 awg! For tonearm wire?!? Please fill in some information.

First off, my apologies. I was rushed and excited to put this up here.

A little background.

Pioneer 510-A Turntable. Shure M97X, standard S tonearm that came with it.
Cambridge 640 phono amp.
Music Hall 25.2 Amp
Aletha LS-500 Speakers.

For the tonearm wire.....I may be confused.....its not the tonearm wire....its the wire from the tonearm, then that leads to the RCA's.....sorry about my technology terms! Its 1 small piece of copper strand then wrapped around it is some tubing, then the shield of copper strands. We lead that to female rca connectors that we mounted on the back of the Pioneer.

I think I have confused my self!

It was a great learning experience for us both.

As for the Playstation, it is warming up nicely, but right away this unit sounded so good. It blew us away. All the reports of the Playstation being a top notch CD player were right. {At least with my solid state system}

I am going to bring it to my Dads later this month for a tube test. {he has Jolida and the like....very smooth and detailed} I'll give a report on that later.

I listened to Kind of Blue yesterday. I have heard that cd thousands of times, but yesterday it sounded like the band was right there in the room. Very very cool experience.

db

That should read Athena LS-500 Speakers