Griffin Turntable Connection Cable with Grounding

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0007PL4BC
• Item model number: 3004-GRD
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 13, 2005

Product Description

Product Description
The cable serves as the connection from the 2 RCA jacks on a turntable to our stereo mini-jack input and also provides a connection for turntable's grounding wire. Some people find a buzz on their recording. The simple way to eliminate the buzz and record the true sound of the album is to connect the ground wire to the Turntable Grounding Cable.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Direct Turntable Connection Too Weak, March 26, 2007

By	Daniel Miller (Superior, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I attempted to use this cable with the Griffin iMic to connect my turntable directly to my G5 iMac and import some of my old vinyl LPs. However, this setup was not able to produce anything close to satisfactory recordings, despite tweaking the settings in the Finyl Vinyl software provided with the iMic and the Mac's Sound control panel. The recorded signal was very weak, even with input gains maxed out, and even worse there was an intolerable amount of white noise (sound like rushing air) in the recording. The signal coming out of the turntable is simply way too weak to provide a decent signal for recording without a preamplifer in the setup. I connected the turntable to my old stereo receiver, and plugged the iMic into one of the receiver's tape recorder outputs, and voila--lots of signal strength and very clean recordings, no white noise whatsover. Direct connection of the turntable to the computer would have been more convenient, but the results are not satisfactory to even a casual listener, (such as myself). I'm 30 bucks poorer, but wiser for the experience.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good while it worked., September 1, 2008

By	SteamLoco76 (Homer City, PA USA) - See all my reviews

I purchased the Griffin Turntable Connector to use with my Technics turnatable and my iMac G5 to rip a huge album collection to AIFF files.
The Griffin unit worked well for several hours (however, it does NOT have the RIAA curve converter built in like a good pre-amp would) then began to sound distorted. A few days later,I tried to use it and it stopped working altogether.

An e-mail to Griffins help department stated that the unit couldn't go bad or quit working and told me to try different USB ports on my computer. I tried this, however the unit still did not work. A second e-mail to Griffin received the reply of "Some MAC's develop problems with the drivers for the USB system preventing certain devices from working properly...went on to suggest my MAC needed a new USB card etc. There is nothing wrong with the computer- every other accessory works all the time. I even tried the Griffin unit on a MAC tower at work. It did not work on it either. Sending an e-mail with those results received no reply from Griffin. A lot of money for a product lasting less than twenty hours of use!

Do yourself a favor. Buy a good pre-amp and the cables to connect to the audio inputs on your computer and forget the Griffin Turntable Connector.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Griffin Turntable connection ( convert vinyl to digital ), January 12, 2007

By	S. C. Wertz "Steve Wertz" (Atlanta) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had no problems with this product. It worked perfectly. I was ecstatic to get some of the obscure albums off vinyl and into a digital format finally. Works perfectly for its purpose.