You really don't need to upgrade the cable so much as you need to try a different pair of male RCA plugs at the ends of the cables coming from your Linn. If you have soldering skills, you can buy any pair of aftermarket male RCAs and do it yourself. I recommend Cardas, for ease of use or WBT. (I am guessing that you have one continuous set of wires from the cartridge all the way to the phono stage, so it would be a big job to change out the wires. If you are using a traditional pair of ICs with RCA connections at each end, then of course you need to attend to the connectors at the turntable end, as well. Or maybe the wires terminate in a DIN plug at the tonearm end. DIN plugs can be maddening too.)
Why does unplugging/replugging TT leads from tube phono pre-amp reset dead channel?
I have a BAT VK P-10SE with Superpak. Tubed phono preamp. When one of the channels drops out (it actually is out when the system powers up), I used to go nuts trying to figure out which tube needed replacing. I have learned, after much frustration, that simply unplugging the lead from the Turntable - and plugging it back in - solves the problem. Sometimes it's the left channel. Sometimes the right. And if I leave the system on with no music playing for a while, on occasion a channel will drop out. I have asked at several stereo shops...no one know why this works. Or what the real underlying cause of the problem is. When it works...it sounds great. No indication of a tube issue. And the cartridge - Shelter 901 - sounds great, too. Any advice is welcome. Thanks.
Joe
Joe
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