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.

Product Details

• Brand: Griffin Technology
• Model: 3004-GRD
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .9 pounds

Features

• Lets you hook up a turntable to use with iMic or PowerWave
• Record your vinyl to digital
• Provides connection for your turntable's grounding wire

Customer Reviews

Direct Turntable Connection Too Weak
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.

Griffin Turntable connection ( convert vinyl to digital )
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.

Awesome Product for Recording Vinyl (and more)
The people complaining about the sound quality being too weak from a turntable probably did not know how to use the Final Vinyl software. When you first hook up a turntable, the sound is kind of tinny, but there is a special option in the Final Vinyl EQ for turntables. Once you turn this on, the sound is deep and rich just as if you had hooked up the unit to a preamp. There was a whole PDF document on how to use Final Vinyl included on the CD-ROM which explains this.

I've been using an iMic for years to rip vinyl and do mobile recording, and I love it. The sound quality is great, it's just as good as the professional audio interfaces I have in my home studio from MOTU. The Final Vinyl software is a little buggy and crashes every so often when creating a new audio document, but it has never crashed on me during recording and I have never lost any work as a result. I typically record using Final Vinyl and then edit the recordings in Garage Band or Logic Express, but Final Vinyl does let you trim the recording and split it up if you want to do it there.

The only issue I have had with vinyl recordings is that I get some ground hum from my turntable since it's not connected to a grounding terminal. I have the old iMic which just had RCA inputs, but I see that Griffin has updated the iMic's cable to include a grounding screw. I'm considering upgrading to get this feature and then using my old iMic as a spare/secondary interface.