Grounding a turntable and a tonearm

But I am having a nightmare time with static and popping etc on the turntable and someone said I have not grounded the turntable.

Try it a few ways, sounds like you cannot make it worse.

If you bring it over to the RCAs/XLRs you could tie it there if there is a place… or run it around/with the RCAs and tie it to the preamp.

Just make sure. It is slack enough that it is not like tying the house outside of a saloon and keeping the sub platter from moving.

Sounds like a plan.

Do I wire the tone arm into the ground on the turntable, and then run a wire to the phono stage

 

@justinrphillips 

The standard SOTA armboard is MDF and non conductive, so the tonearm ground and TT ground cannot form a ground loop.

I would connect both the arm ground and TT ground to the phono grounding post.

You can get carbon fibre brushes with anti static properties to help remove any static build up in the record prior to playing. I use one from Analog Relax.

 Static and popping sounds more like dirty vinyl than a ground issue....

Poor ground caused HUM, not crackling or pops. No HUM, your existing ground is fine.

You need to clean your LP's to prevent crackling and pops.