Analogue question


As everyone else in the world this lockdown has been a change in "normal " behavior but has given many of us audiophiles plenty of time to listen to "our music " . Since I am planning to downsize my living space I have been going through various pieces of equipment to determine what I will keep and what I would let go . 5 days ago I have come across a maddening problem with my analogue set-up ! Everything sounds great until I want to play a record and before I even place the needle in the grove I get a serious hum through my speakers ! I originally suspected I was getting acoustic feedback because my amp was close to the speakers . Yesterday I moved all the equipment to a distance of 6-10 feet from the speakers and still get the hum when I switch to analogue. Starting to wonder if it is coming from the turntable itself but before I take the time and energy to reset a new rig thought I would post a question on this forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated . Set-up is as follows : Dual Golden turntable w/ortofon red cartridge , McCormack UDP player , Forte 2a preamp feeding Forte 4A amp , speakers are Vandersteen 1C , interconnects KimberKable Heroes ,speaker wire Nordost Blue and Tice power conditioner . 
wazoo
@Wazoo:  Just guessing,but as someone suggested, it maybe your interconnects not making good contact.  Burnish the plugs and jacks slightly.
Hi,
as tonearm cable is most propably jointed at a small board inside the table my guess is that by moving it the first time some earthing got detached as long as you did not make any other change, ie taking cartridge out. Undo the underside and inspect if all tiny little cables are still attached. I doubt that both RCA’s presented an issue at the same time.
Earthing/hum issues are eliminated by trial and error.
Just reset everything using a separate pre-phono & hum is gone ! Think it is a problem in my preamp with the built in phono stage !