In the restoration workshop, few complaints are as intriguing—and as diagnostically revealing—as this one: “The noise only appears when I touch the tonearm.” At first glance, it sounds like a minor annoyance. In practice, it is one of the clearest signals a turntable can give. This behavior almost always points to grounding faults, oxidation, broken …
Switched-Mode Power Supplies, Wi-Fi, and Interference: Why Your Vintage Turntable System Got Noisier
The moment you finish restoring a vintage turntable, you expect silence between notes: a calm background, a steady platter, a clean lead-in groove. Yet many people notice the opposite after upgrading “everything around it” — new routers, smart bulbs, LED lamps, laptop chargers, USB power bricks. Suddenly, the system that once sounded smooth now carries …