Yeah, that’s about right. I think of tonearm wiring as just those wires you can’t solder to very easily. If you don’t like the supplied RCA cord (usually the case) can change it out easy.
You may not be able to hear much difference in the cable itself, but you sure as hell can if the cheap molded on plug goes open circuit or gets oxidized.
You may not be able to hear much difference in the cable itself, but you sure as hell can if the cheap molded on plug goes open circuit or gets oxidized.
Don't forget that direction matters. The hose clamps have to be broken in properly, facing in the same direction as the audio is flowing through the cables.
That's only part of the picture. The chassis standing on it's end is the power supply from the radio transmitter. The yellow clip lead is carrying the 1500 volt B+. This proto never got beyond this stage. I still have a few tubes, the OPT and a smaller but higher voltage power transformer. I really don't need a Marty McFly style guitar amp, so I'll never build it. The bucket list is longer than I have bucket left, so things are getting voted off that island.
Testing and full scale "annoy the neighbors" mode was done with the Lexan shield in place. Bad things could happen if my guitar touched stuff in that power supply. The rack mount device partially hidden by the guitar neck is an ADA MP-1 MIDI guitar preamp. I set on a preset that I call "Jimi" and blasted away for a while. I found a rhythm that could provoke a resonance in the power supply somewhere between 1 and 2 Hz. If I played at that speed I could get the room lights blinking eventually tripping the 15 amp bench breaker. That was the worse thing that happened during the week that this beast was alive. I even found a frequency response plot. The TV, CRT monitor, and PC date this picture.
When I built the opamp phono stage that resides inside the turntable I started out with no cap across the input. I played with a test record and the HP8903A audio analyzer seen in the rack above the speaker. I don't remember all the details, but I think I wound up moving the peak away from the nasty zone in the tweeter of my NS-10s rather than trying for perfect flatness. I have changed cartridges at least once since I made the preamp.
