Hum.....??

"I replaced a cheap set of IC's with the Hero's. That's when the hum started. Too bad to. Besides the hum, it sounded better."

If the hum started when I put a set of cables into my system I would start be removing those cables.

Aaaarrrggghhhh!

I'm going crazy here. I've tried everything. Reversing plugs, unplugging everything except the amp and the phono pre. No luck. I took the table apart, no problems there, wiring wise. I pulled the wand off, unmounted the arm, checked the wiring. Put everything back together, Now I have basically no right channel. Very distorted and no volume. Dam it!!! It was so close...... The vinyl was bettering CD on many occassions....... Guess I damaged one of those hair like wires in the base of the arm. So now, it's either try to find the problem and fix it, try to re-wire the base of the arm, get a different arm, or just bite the bullet and get a totally different table.

Not a happy camper........

maybe the center post on the rca connection is not touching firmly

Tg,
That's just it. I replaced a cheap set of IC's with the Hero's. That's when the hum started. Too bad to. Besides the hum, it sounded better.

Sometimes shielding is not the issue. I had a pair of Audioquest cables between the pre-pro RCA out and my HT input on the pre-amp and had a devil of a time figuring out that they were not properly grounded and the source of my hum. I changed cables and the hum went away. And, the new cables were cheaper! Try a different set of cables. Kimber uses a twisted pair geometry to act as shielding. I use a fully shielded IC from the TT to the pre-amp on the theory that the signals are so small that I don't want to amplify any extraneous signals. Just a thought.