https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chpt-13/series-and-parallel-capacitors/^^^
With capacitors, its the reverse: parallel connections result in additive values while series connections result in diminished values.
My 1st turntable, a PE 2040 (made in 1970) didn't have low capacitance cables (I bought a Grado CD-4 cart to use with it).
IIRC, no CD-4 article mentioned trying to lower the total capacitance seen by the CD-4 demod by putting more capacitors in series with the tonearm wiring, has anyone tried this approach - use a tonearm with high capacitance wiring + some capacitors in series at the turntable output and before the CD-4 demod to bring the total capacitance down to ~100pF (the ballpark for CD-4 to work)?
Kirk Bayne
With capacitors, its the reverse: parallel connections result in additive values while series connections result in diminished values.
My 1st turntable, a PE 2040 (made in 1970) didn't have low capacitance cables (I bought a Grado CD-4 cart to use with it).
IIRC, no CD-4 article mentioned trying to lower the total capacitance seen by the CD-4 demod by putting more capacitors in series with the tonearm wiring, has anyone tried this approach - use a tonearm with high capacitance wiring + some capacitors in series at the turntable output and before the CD-4 demod to bring the total capacitance down to ~100pF (the ballpark for CD-4 to work)?
Kirk Bayne