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Old 06-09-2019, 12:30 PM
vortalexfan vortalexfan is offline
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Originally Posted by maxhifi View Post
Are you connecting the turntable ground wire to the ground screw on your amplifier, or to earth ground? It needs to go only to the amplifier, any other connection will make hum.

Also, shure cartridges sometimes strap one negative terminal to chassis ground, meaning if it does not hum with the ground wire disconnected leave it disconnected. This isn't a safety ground, it's just for hum reduction
It's attached to the ground screw on the back of the receiver near the phono input jacks.
I could see about disconnecting the ground wire and seeing if that helps.

Last edited by vortalexfan; 06-10-2019 at 02:13 AM.
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