GROUND WIRE

[ED FIELDING]

Hi chaps - Can I ask a rather simple and novice question please

My Aiwa XA-006 amp has a ground connection do I need to trail a wire ?

I dont get any hum from the deck but I do get alot of static esp from platter and cartridge/tonearm

Any help would be realy appreciated

My deck is a simple Aiwa pre-amp deck into a line in rather than phono due built in pre-amp

 

[TrevC]

The answer is no. If your deck has a loose wire floating about you could try connecting it to that ground terminal.

 

[davedotco]

The ground pin on an amplifier is usually there to ground a record player, but in this case I would guess that your turntable is grounded to your amplifier by the rca phono leads.

Anyway, there is no reason not to try it, just connect the earth point to the earth pin on a 13amp plug and try it. If there is a problem it should be obvious at once, if it does not induce a hum, leave it in place and see if it reduces the static over time.

 

[ED FIELDING]

Thank you - I Need to solve the static out in that case Its esp bad on cartridge when touched and platter seems realy bad too - It effects sound after a while until I discharge static