It's hard to tell, as there are no standard colours for this.
Try to see where they are comming from..
Otherwise take a simple wire and attach it to the ground pin of one of the signal phono plugs.
Then (with the motor running) shortly touch the other end of the wire to the metal housing of your arm (near the pick-up). If the hum disappear, your ground wire to the arm is bad.
If this is not the case, then shortly touch the free end of the wire to a metal part on your motor.
One of the above should solve the problem
Keep us informed about the results
ACD said:
I encountred the same problem with an AC motor ,but a ground connection to metal parts of the motor didn't solve it .
It is a matter of cartridge . Not every cartridge rejects the noise from motor at the same way. Sometime , if the noise is very high is better use a low-voltage-electronically-controlled motor.
Generally high voltage AC motors are more intrusive , but I did not find the problem using MC phono cartridges.
ACD said:
It's hard to tell, as there are no standard colours for this.
Try to see where they are comming from..
Otherwise take a simple wire and attach it to the ground pin of one of the signal phono plugs.
Then (with the motor running) shortly touch the other end of the wire to the metal housing of your arm (near the pick-up). If the hum disappear, your ground wire to the arm is bad.
If this is not the case, then shortly touch the free end of the wire to a metal part on your motor.
One of the above should solve the problem
Keep us informed about the results
I have already tried these things to no avail, the hum is still present, but thanks for your input.
stefanobilliani said:
I think that this is most likely as you say an ac motor problem. I am looking into trying a dc motor with my tt to see if this cures the hum. Thanks for your contribution
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