Not what you asked, so feel free to disregard, but if I were going to the expense of rewiring a tone arm, I would direct from cart clips to male RCAs that plug into your phono stage. Very low level phono cart output should, IMO, pass through as few mechanical connections as possible.
Tonearm wiring termination---DIN, or RCA jacks?
I'm about to get a tonearm rewired, and am curious how ya'll feel about the question of whether 'tis better to terminate the arm's internal wire into a DIN connector at the bottom of the arm shaft, or into RCA jacks mounted in a block such as Cardas offers, into which RCA cables are inserted.
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I don't know precisely how it is configured in each case inside the arm wand, but several tonearm builders provide a one piece solution (clips to male RCAs) as an option. I know my Schroeder does. There are bare wires in the wand and then the outer sheathing begins at the base of the arm pillar. If you have a Rega arm you can even buy a rewire kit that is direct from clips to RCAs as shown here. |