How to convert VPI turntable to banlanced?

Valhalla is the better wire for the VPI arm, however, it takes a very, very long time to break in...many months.

The best way to burn in tonearm wire is NOT by playing records.

Get some solid core copper wire about the guage of the cartridge pinouts. Connect this to 2 male RCA jacks. Plug these jacks into your CD player and the bare wire ends into your cartridge clips. Then plug the tonearm interconnect into your regular preamp (not the phono stage).

Play CD's for a 100 hours or so and you will have burned in your whole analogue wire connections far more thoroughly than 1000 hours of turntable time.

Enjoy,
Bob

What if you have a regular turntable. Is it hard to mod to banlanced? Let's say for example: J Michell gyro se mk ii or Oracle. Thanks

Seamaster, Do you own a balanced phono stage? If not, don't bother with the rest of it. You will gain nothing but complexity. See my post above. Your cartridge is an inherently balanced source, but it doesn't know or care whether it is driving a single-ended or balanced phono stage. In the former case, one side is connected to ground. In the latter case, that side is now connected to a second amplification stage as the "negative" half of the signal.

Lewm, to be technically correct:
In a single-ended setup, in which (in each channel) one of the pins of the cartridge is connected to ground, the phono stage amplifies the signal present at the other pin of the cartridge with reference to ground. In a balanced setup, in which none of the pins of the cartridge is connected to ground, the phono stage amplifies the difference signal between the two pins of the cartridge; no reference to ground is present. That's the advantage of going balanced: No reference to ground with all the noise, grunge... present there.