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Old 09-19-2020, 02:03 PM
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If this system didn't previously suffer from a hum problem, I'd look for potential simple causes first, such as bad or dirty connections at the phono cartridge pins and cabling. It could also be an aging cartridge. Do you have a spare you could use to test that?
My Soundsmith Paua MK II has less than 20 hours on it. It's only just breaking in. Anyway the tonearm wiring comes through the top of the unipivot where it has a screw in plug. When I remove it, the hum is still there, so it's not in the cartridge or tonearm wiring.

It's somewhere downstream and I'm suspicious of the little external power supply.
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