That's what I thought you meant and there is a soldered spade lug screwed to the chassis. I don't think I checked that end, but did the other as it was attached to the tonearm metal pivot bracket, which I had to disassemble for the new tonearm leads. That's a good idea on the 'hair' wires, but I think the power mains go out the other side and so the tonearm wires are only near the RCA cable. I do have the ground going out right against the power mains on its way to the receiver-will that make any difference? The ground is also pretty small...like 20ga.