Everything is precision cast and machined. The Technics arm is a high quality piece. It is thicker than the plain grease that Technics used back in the day, it offers a more subtle resistance to unwanted movements as you adjust the VTA and it will last a life time. You can see this as a very pale green color on the aluminum surface of the cast aluminum piece. When you have the arm apart to rewire, now is the time to do a full disassembly and lubricate the mechanism. 3 connection points is important for these heavier wires. This is important, I do not want the board flexing or distorting. I had to drill a small hole at the bottom end of the inner white vinyl arm piece in order to mount a screw to provide 3 points of attachment. This bypasses the stock Technics PCB board which I feel is essential to getting the best possible sound. This allows me the ability to provide proper stress relief and to solder the tonearm wire directly to the Cardas wire. On both of these tone arms, the replacement wire was so stiff and heavy that I decided to build special mounting plates from electronic project boards. The wire is rated for 2ghz in high definition video applications. The inner conductor is composed of high purity copper strands and it is double shielded. It is actually a high definition coax cable. On the previous arm we used Beldin 1505B. I am hoping it will sound as good as my last arm I wired for him. My friend also supplied some Monster Cable IL-250 wire to run from the base plate to the phono input. I simply soldered all five tonearm wires (red, green, white, blue and black for grounding) to one of the existing wires at the stock pcb board and carefully pulled them through the tonearm wand. This makes tinning and soldering a lot easier than many smaller gauge wires I have used. It is 6 nines pure, with a nice dielectric shield that melts away under heat. I rewired the arm wand with Cardas 33 awg tonearm wire purchased from Percy Audio. It should be equivalent to the Audioquest H-12. I love this for both stiffness and for overall quality. I like this look! The headshell is the adjustable LP gear headshell and it has ultra nice litz wire from the leads to the cartridge. You can see that the wand is not chromed but rather a satin finish on the MG5 arms. You can select any IC of your choice or simply run Cardas 33 awg continuous from bayonet to RCA input if you wish. The wire is Monster IL-250 and the monster RCA ends are actually very nice quality pieces.
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