Balanced input phono preamp

[nezbleu]

How much surgery did the turntable require?

Just for kicks try a Salas shunt regulator sometime, i have had very good results from those with phono stages.

 

[nezbleu]

Sherman set the WABAC machine to December 2014...

4. If the cartridge has a grounding strap, 20 seconds with a razor blade will fix that. I've only seen these on Shures, but I haven't seen every cartridge out there. Voila, balanced outputs!

Empire as well, if you can still find one.

5. You generally don't have to worry about rewiring the tonearm or turntable, but you'll want balanced interconnects and connectors. I recommend thin, low-noise microphone cable and REAN Tiny XLR.

A lot of turntables and tonearms were wired to strap chassis ground to one channel's "ground". All Duals that I have seen, older Thorens (TP-16 on TD-160 etc), most Rega arms, on and on. Horrible practice.

 

[Vincent77]

How much surgery did the turntable require?

Just for kicks try a Salas shunt regulator sometime, i have had very good results from those with phono stages.

The turntable surgery was quite trivial, and I also made a new cable out of twisted AgCu Teflon wire...

You are right about the Salas reg, it's very good, I use the high voltage variety in other projects!