Anyone try the replica B-60 Fidelity Research VTA?

Dear Lew:

We are talking about low impedance MC cartridges, right?

>The load resistor might affect frequency response but not gain.

If so, wouldn't the MC cartridge frequency curves published in various magazines be non-comparable and essentially meaningless unless there was an industry-standard load resistor value that all magazines adhered to?

kind regards, jonathan

Addendum. I think Lew will have less problems now to
understand the wonders to which the old Maranz 7 is
capable. He may also be interested in the price of 'the
water' because his old Beweridge may need some.
Regarding Australia. I wanted to speed up its developing
potential and lend out one of my better LOMC to 'some'
Aussie. He wrote to me to have never before experienced
such a cart. The best he has ever heard. But , to my big
surprise, the cart was returned after 10 days or so without
any explanation. 'My Gosh' I thought he is probaly insulted
by some of my Serbian jokes. Those however are not
intended as jokes but more like a kind of teasing. So, for
example, by his knee operation I wanted to comfort him
and posted to him the 'Serbian romatic version' of his mis
fortune. According to this interpretation he was catch by
her husband who happely had no firing guns of any kind but
only some baseboll stick...
.

Well I am glad with any contribution but so far only Lew and I wrote about the replica. To summarize: he is satisfy with its functionality and has only some small esthetical problem with the (sticky) siicon oil while my only problem is this damn screw. But what about Thekong's sample, irrespective if its 'fabricator' is from Taiwan or Hong Kong?
Dear Dover, It was wise from me to first check the price of the new B-60 before ordedring one. What is the price per liter of your Holly Water?

Dover, thanks for the explanation. Will be in touch with you very soon.

Dear JCarr, Touche'. The problem with my statement is that it was general and followed Audpulse's specific comment about a 47K load on an MC. Are you suggesting that the load resistor never has any impact on frequency response of an MC? If so, teach me. I thought that very low values of load resistor (i.e., high loads) can dampen the HF response, of some MCs in some cases with some loads. So if I am correct, then perhaps there should be an industry-standard ratio of load resistance to cartridge internal resistance, for published tests. Anyway, who ever publishes curves these days, for cartridges? Even S'phile takes the subjective judgment of its reviewers as gospel.

My main point was that unless the load resistor is much closer in value to the internal resistance of the MC cartridge (where 47K would of course be maybe more than 1000X the internal resistance and could have no effect at all on gain), or certainly if it's less than the internal resistance, it will not have an appreciable effect on gain.