turntable ground

scottyboy76

got a cheap technics turntable, nothing special, still better than cds.unfortunately i cannot locate the ground wire. my question. instead of paying 17 dollars at needle doctor, can i just open it and run a wire from an internal screw to the receiver ground screw and be good to go. any help would be appreciated. i cant wait to bust out some of my 500 or so albums, mainly from the seventys and make cassettes. i am sick of my wife and i riding around terying to pretend cds sound right. by the way i as a disabled vet will soon be starting a grass roots movement called 'Give a vet a home" where any of our combat or direct combat support vets could pick a foreclosed home they want and get it free. we have millions of empty homes ruining from neglect and we have vets taking bullets having to use food stamps. disgraceful. i will soon be kicking this off in the clubhouse forum. by the way i would not qualify,my disability is not military related.lets at least put our vets second in line behind wall streeters and "community activists". god bless america and our veterans.

comfortablycurt

I don't know about your turntable issues...

But this probably isn't the place to bring up your political agenda. It seems like that was the primary intention of this post...and it's not really the place for it.


BTW, if you think cassettes sound better than CD's, you are freakin insane.

MillerLiteScott

I had a cheap Technics turntable that did not have a place for a ground wire. I just hooked up the RCA and spun Vinyl. YMMV.

Scott

scottyboy76

curt i didnt mean it to be political but you are right, i was wondering if the clubhouse would be okay, seriously i dont have much experience reading posts in there. as far as the turntable, this particular tt has a serious hum without the ground. as far as cassettes vs. cds. i would much rather listen to a home recorded tape from vinyl than cds on players that most people can sanely afford. its been a real eye opener seeing what can be spent on audio gear, but a stock toyota highlander cd player is not impressive, believe me. the question about grounding tt still stands, if anyone does know i would appreciate it. god bless america. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS>

HB27

I've had a few of those Technics with the ground wire that plugs in. It's easy to take a piece of speaker wire and shove in there and take a screw that fits to hold it in.
Bless our troops! From a vet.
Harry

mhardy6647

If you don't have a hum problem without the ground wire in place, don't worry about adding one. If you do, then, yes, connect a ground point on the tt to a ground on the receiver or phono preamp, and it should ameloriate the problem.

Dawgfish

Scottyboy76,

Where in the North GA mountains are you from? I am origanally from that area also. I live on St. Simons on the coast now, but I sure do miss the North GA mountains and I'm counting the days till I move back. My soul needs to soak in a trout stream.

Steve

scottyboy76

thanks for advice everyone,dawg we live outside mccaysville. near blue ridge. this is one of the times of year we truly appreciate living here. worked in the garden yesterday all day and never broke a sweat. we are blessed to live in a safe caring community with mostly old time values and people who are doggedly fighting the mtv,monolithic messengers of decayed morals and hate. we are truly blessed. by the way, if you want to relax in a nice shady cool mountain stream. you might want to hurry. the wooly adelgid pest is destroying the hemlock forests which make up the majority of shade for trout in the streams. joyce kilmer forest, an old growth national forest of massive hemlocks is now deforested, it basically looks as if it was torched. we put a systemic insecticide out every march to keep ours. by the way anybody out there who doesnt know a hemlock, on the andy griffith show, when they would go to carters lake to fish or catch escaped convicts or whatever, the large evergreens with the drooping branches they were always around are hemlocks. thanks everyone, i cant wait to spin some vinyl, record some cassettes CHICAGO CURT,and ride these mountains. maybe big frog or granny maur. god bless our troops.

Dawgfish

I know Mccaysville well. I used to work at the Copper Basin site just over the border in Copperhill TN doing the environmental investigation of the old mine sites. When I was living in North GA, I was a part time fly fishing guide for Unicoi Outfitters, a flyshop in Blue Ridge. I used to guide all the time on the Toccoa River there at Horseshoe Bend Park and at Curtis Switch. I also used to do a lot of my personal fishing there in the Cohuttas. I grew up in the Dahlonega area BTW.

I'm sorry to here about the wooly adelgid. I'll have to call the guys and gals back at the flyshop and get a report on this, as we were all very worried and active on trout stream preservation/protection and all active Trout Unlimed memebers. I've let my membership expire sense I've been down here and I've kind of been "out of the loop" for the last couple of years.

Keep on enjoying your spring there. I know how beautiful it is there this time of year (and the rest of the year for that matter) and wish I was there to enjoy it with you.

Steve

hearingimpared

mhardy6647 wrote: »

If you don't have a hum problem without the ground wire in place, don't worry about adding one. If you do, then, yes, connect a ground point on the tt to a ground on the receiver or phono preamp, and it should ameloriate the problem.

I believe he said he is having a hum problem.

scottyboy76, what you might be able to do, and I'm no expert on Technics TTs, is to twist tie your tone arm to its rest to keep it from flopping around, then place the table on its side. Open up the bottom, if it is enclosed, and check your tonearm base. If there is place to attatch a wire to a screw on the tonearm base, simply attach a wire to it and then attach the other end to a ground post on your preamp. This should ground out the tonearm and that may resolve your hum problem.