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TONEARM REWIREE - DUMB QUESTION

I am thiking about re-wiring an arm myself from cartridge tags to phono plugs.

 

My questions are:

 

1. after exiting the arm does one solder a heavier gauge of cable to beef up the smaller cable

2. does one simply shield the cable on exiting the arm

3. any wire recommendations other than cardas which i understand are quite stiff

lohanimal
delm
54 posts
 

I moved the phono equalizer close to the TT so I could use a two foot cable pair I made.  The signal wire is 24 AWG solid copper and the shield is 3/8" braided for low capacitance of 15 pf/foot.  The dielectric between signal and shield is cotton yarn, big stuff about 2mm diameter, 25 strands.

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elliottbnewcombjr
5,471 posts
 

VAS re-wired mine, used a VPI junction box like this

 

Solder a small connector on your tonearm wires to go into the socket on top.

out: either Balanced or RCA as shown

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here’s a used one

 

you need the small fitting for the end of your wires

.. shown on the end of this VPI arm https://www.ebay.com/itm/265582538423?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=265582538423&targetid=1262749490862&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9003512&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1262749490862&abcId=9300678&merchantid=6296724&gclid=CjwKCAjwp7eUBhBeEiwAZbHwkdtsF4vi2W0T-xAMgVkR1GOQ0Qq90-sU6cpjR4NRNAJTRE0Q4WVKKhoCXrIQAvD_BwE

here’s one with phono cable hard wired. *** NOTICE the optional adapter for an arm with standard DIN5 to the small connector https://www.ebay.com/itm/394039176137?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338381866&toolid=10001&customid=9c216b30-dc9a-11ec-8784-643530373966

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