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Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM
Is it ERS cloth?  You may need to wrap the component completely so that no part of the chassis is uncovered, and then ground the cloth.  A true metal cage is better in this case if only because it allows for cooling.Before you get that crazy, try ... 
Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact??
Haven't seen a telegram in maybe 50 years except while watching an old movie on TCM. 
Denon DP-3000. YAYs or NAYs ???
C'est la vie. 
Denon DP-3000. YAYs or NAYs ???
The Denon direct drive turntables of the 1970s were not quartz locked, because that idea had not entered the mainstream back then.  The alphanumeric code for those turntables is "DP" followed by a 4-digit number ranging from somewhere below 3000 t... 
Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM
If what you have with the Aria is truly "hum", then I am beginning to doubt it's due to EMI, but your story certainly is consistent with airborne interference, which usually is EMI or RFI.  Except you've now revealed that you had no hum with your ... 
Denon DP-3000. YAYs or NAYs ???
You remember incorrectly.  The Denon model that your mentor Chakster uses is the DP80.  The DP80 is world's better than the DP3000, for one thing because its speed is quartz-referenced, whereas the DP3000 motor speed is not.  I agree with Chak tha... 
500 albums in a basement flood--worth saving?
No.  An LP won't warp just from getting wet.  That's why RCMs don't warp LPs.  Extremes of heat and cold and storing LPs incorrectly will warp them.  To the OP:  It depends entirely on how precious these LPs are to you.  Since it was fresh water, ... 
Am I asking too much?
Millercarbon, Why are you so angry? Let's at least give the local dealer a break and wait for his response to the OP, before we thoroughly assassinate his character.  Also, Kevin Bacon is a real person; Nedermayer is a fictitious character in a mo... 
AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance
Agree with Raul. 
Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM
"Hum" is generally used to refer to a 60Hz or 120Hz pure tone. Do you really have hum or what is more loosely defined as "buzz", which is a mixture of frequencies? Assuming this really is EMI and not a grounding problem, a Faraday cage may work, b... 
Do Tonearms need servicing
Last Dance?  Just hearing it makes me homicidal. 
AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance
BTW, a difference in compliance of 18 vs 15 would hardly make anything but a very tiny difference in the resonant frequency (Fres) calculation.  Fres varies inversely as the square root of the product of M*C, where C = compliance.  The square root... 
AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance
One of those two new versions, probably the lowest output one, seems to be an update (or an up-cost) of the ART7, in disguise.  I am very fond of the ART7.  I am not into or able to split hairs about minute differences among very similar cartridge... 
Do Tonearms need servicing
If you are not careful servicing your vintage tonearm, you will soon have a gaggle of baby tonearms to care for.  So use protection. 
Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming
I'll have to take mine apart to see what you are talking about.  It's only apparent from the outside that there is the one black rubbery donut that creates the decoupling of the joint to the shaft that holds the CW.  Do you mean to say there is an...