[Travis]

Hey guys I want to buy a Technics SL1200MK2. I have a phono preamp from TheSource which has two sets of RCA jacks, one for in and one for out. That's all that's there.

Now, I want to buy the turntable, and the cartridge I have picked out, but I am wondering where the ground cable goes from the turntable, since I don't have a ground post on my Denon AVR. I'm thinking that I may have made a mistake when I bought this preamp?

 

[Travis]

Well, if the Denon is lacking a ground post, that has nothing to do with the preamp. You should be able to attach the ground wire to the Denon via any screw that holds the cover on.

Regards,
Wayne

No I know that that has nothing to do with the pre amp, but I was just specifying that it also does not have one. So I can just connect the ground wire to a screw on the side of my receiver then hey?

Awesome!

Thank you very much!

 

[Travis]

I'm assuming that I could use any screw on any of my components (such as my DVD player, since it is easiest to remove from my component stack being on the top, to look and see if the screws are touching any ciruits)

 

[Travis]

You can try it but it may introduce a ground loop and hum.

Why would it matter which component it was? They're all plugged in to a socket of some sort that delivers electricity.

 

[Travis]

Ideally you want all earths from one piece of equipment going directly to just one other piece of equipment (including signal earths).
If you connect the turntable signal earths to the amplifier and the earthlug to the DVD then you have potentially two earth paths going back to the wall outlet and end up with a loop.

It may not matter, the only way to know is try it.

Oh! What if the DVD player is plugged into the AVR's power outlet, as it is?

 

[Travis]

So the general idea here is that when I get the turntable, experiment!