Technics 1200/1210 tonearm rewire 

Thanks for sharing. Good tip attach the head shell to the tone arm. 👍👌

I did this exact same thing to my 1200 a few years ago, and it’s certainly not a job for someone with no soldering experience. Luckily the upgraded sound is quite large and noticeable in a fantastic way. Great vid. It’s about time someone showed how to do this correctly. I wish I’d videoed my experience. Thanks!

thank you for the video. i learned what i needed.

I can do this thanks!!! You Just saved me a couple of bucks

Excellent video. Thanks so much.

fun stuff & good show. I broke one of the 4 tiny wire / plugs that connect to back of cartridge - ( 73 , clumsy hands is my excuse ) and it didn't have the SME /technics replaceable 2 inch wires... had to do something like this - very crude, no way I was going to remove the tonearm / pivot. and electronic repair shops have gone the way of dinosaur. eventually just ran 4 tiny new wires ( eBay ) along outside of tonearm, wound & soldered them to the cable / rca jacks going to amp. crude but it works. > be very sure to color code the wires. I painted them & put color insulating tubing on the ends where I had the right tubing. WHY they don't use sturdier fittings - din't even have insulating tubes ( at minimum thicker or double insulating tubes over the vulnerable connections. ) and standard replaceable sme / or other head shell......ps I found burning the insulation off using small matches worked better than trying to cut / strip the insulation.... far less chance of cutting 1 or 2 of the very tiny fragile wire. just clean the bare wire with alcohol or other.

need to do this

Thank you for sharing this tip. Love your videos. Do you have a link we’re I can order these wires? Cheers from San Jose, California

Awesome, thx for showing us the way! Going to start tinkering with a cheap player I just picked up in hopes of upgrading/improving parts. Q:Would replacing the wires with a thicker gauge, possibly adding some additional shielding through the tone arm improve the signal from stylus to internal electronics?

I bought the same wire, but why did you use that end of the cable? how do you resolder on the collet part of it onto the pcb of the turtable if you use the tin side for the cartridge side?

do these wires need to be shielded by the ground wires or whats the different between doing this and getting one of those shielded wrapped wires, besides the mate3rial?

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How long is each wire. There are various options for buying a length of litz cable.

I replaced my tonearm cables recently with silver ones and I’ve found the sound is really thin. I know silver cables are meant to sound bright but I’ve lost a lot of bass. Not sure if this is because I’ve done a bad job or it’s the wires

Thanks for sharing! Are you sure that you really ned to disassemble whole tonearm for this? Is it possible to desolder old wiring, unscrew front part of tonearm near headshell and use old wires as broach for new one. Not sure that is called broach in English thought

Hi, I have a Rega RB101 arm that has a very loud, intrusive hum on both channels. All the wiring checks out OK with a meter. I have tried swapping to a known good cartridge, same issue, so no apparent reason for the hum. Is it just the result of poor quality internal factory wiring? Have you come across a similar issue that has no obvious cause? I have removed the factory wiring so a rewire with a separate ground from the arm tube is starting to look inevitable Would be grateful for any advice. Thanks.

In your opinion what is the best brand of cables, and are they shielded?

Hi there, I have technics 1210 Mk2 turntable, where I'm struggle with a mono sound (only left side) coming out. I tried to change the pickup, then clean the pins with alcohol and polish on the arm, but no success. Plus when try to touch the pickup or the platter with my hand, there is an increasing background noise like when I heard if the ground is not properly set on the mixer. Do you have any idea what is the problem? Thanks!

you could have made the job a little easyer by tieing the leads to a piece of string or fishing wire before pulling the wires out of the tube so you can tie the new wires to it and pull them back through the tube with it when you have finished the soldering, but thanks for the upload need to replace 1 of mine ;-)

Hi champ can you let me know where about's in the UK you are I want mine doing I'm in Essex cheers

Hi! The wire needs to be of a specific type or any thin enough one will do? Thanks :)

Man, I thought I had a hair where the tonearm wires connected inside my table so I gently pinched and pulled and shit it was my right ground. Trying to strip these wires is a bitch but I finally got it and re soldered it. A mag glass is almost required with such thin internal wiring.

Hi i bought a project debut second hand there is a shield missing off one wire. I have buzzing coming from one side of speakers. Would the missing sleeve do this? Cheers

Hello friend, I have the broken toner arm indoor cables. What is this type of cable called and what diameter can I buy it? Thank you, greetings

Hi… do the wires need to go back in the same order? I’ve taken the wires off my cartridge head and now I need to put them back as I replaced the tone arm.

Where to get the replacement wires?

What gauge are the wires used as replacement?

I need this doing to my 1200. May I ask were u got the wires from?

I see that you took the arm tube of the gimbal bearing, I heard that we should never do that as it is machine calibrated and once we turn these screws, we have no chance to get it back as it was done in the factory, and generally it is cheaper to buy a new tonearm assembly than to pay for recalibration. There are some videos on youtube regarding this.

The socket on my tone arm will not come out no matter how hard I pull, any suggestions?

the tiny screws on the back of the tone arm,are they righty tighty or lefty loosy? trying to snake through wires from bottom and through front of arm-no success. those tiny screws are not surviving.....

Where is the black wire?

they should make them thicker and attach the rca wire to the wire and would be faster no solder I would used a Nintendo control wires 3 good one ground and left right and used a rca clip hooked no solder I would invent Blu tooth headshell