OP:
Also OP, same post:
States the answer, then asks the question he just answered. Fascinating.
The way it was actually written in the original:
While we can only guess all the places it MIGHT be different, you just told us where it IS different. Like I said, fascinating.
Where might the ground potential be different?
Also OP, same post:
when the phono stage is plugged into a separate circuit, no hum at all, phono ground changes nothing.
States the answer, then asks the question he just answered. Fascinating.
The way it was actually written in the original:
when the phono stage is plugged into a separate circuit, no hum at all, phono ground changes nothing. Where might the ground potential be different?
While we can only guess all the places it MIGHT be different, you just told us where it IS different. Like I said, fascinating.