RCA cable won't work on TT ----STRANGE---

[doctorcilantro]

I am hoping some of the knowledgeable folks in here can shed some light on this problem:

The cable on the left (and others) on my TT and the new one doesn't; it has locking plugs.

I have tested the cable elsewhere and it works fine (on my tapedeck).

I can bend the rca's a bit and get one of the channels to come in or

barely stick in one and get sound on one side. As I screw down the

lock as soon as it gets tight the sound dies on that channel.

bizzare....

I checked the cables for continuity and they are okay, and as

I said work fine on my tape deck which has "normal" RCA plugs, not like the cheap unshielded jobbie on my TT which I am going to replace with a Cardas box.

I can only guess it has something to do with the design of the cheapo phono box reacting with the design of the lcoing-plug cables?

My four tonearm wires split into pairs and then run to the each side

of the plug. Then there is one wire on each side that sneaks up above

the plug and is soldered up top. The blue cable works no problem at

all...100%

I have a bunch of these Zaolla silver cables and all work great on my

mixer as well as tube amp.....but, I did not take another shorter RCA>RCA and try it as the phono cable to see if it caused the same problem.

totally bewildered,

DC

[doctorcilantro]

here's the box

[doctorcilantro]

and here are dee cables!

[Erik Mandaville]

What Ryan said. It sounds like the action of locking the barrel(If I'm understanding your description correctly) is somehow forcing a signal connection to ground, which will kill it.