Lakefront Road,
Dynavector recommend greater than 30 ohms. They truly don't specify. I have been going nuts changing impedance until I get it right. I am back to 100 ohms. I started at 100 & moved up slowly to 1000 and now back to 100. I think it is preamp dependant at some level. I sold my Groove for this reason alone. When it came time to experiment with loading I couldn't. I broke my Urushi & purchased a new cartridge & needed to change my load. Now I just open up my phono stage & unplug the resistors (Vishay S-102, or you can use whatever you want in this type of configuration) and switch values. I have several values between 100 & 1000. I don't have 700 or 800 though, which I would like to try. I am using 500 on 2 of my cartridges currently. The Condor & the Eminent. I am still slightly confused with this as changing VTA can also "tune" the sound. I know that HP uses his Dynavector fully open & a few friends use the Dynavector w. 1000 ohm loading. I really believe it has more to do w. the preamp. My guess is considering the Groove to be solid state & similar in some ways to mine you will be fine w. 562 ohm load. I wonder if memebers can chime in here & recommend a fully open Groove & use plug in resistors @ the input terminals?
PS, I ended up using my Bheringer mike w. my computer Spectrum Analysis software to do some room tuning. A lot more to go. Thanks for the advise.
Dynavector recommend greater than 30 ohms. They truly don't specify. I have been going nuts changing impedance until I get it right. I am back to 100 ohms. I started at 100 & moved up slowly to 1000 and now back to 100. I think it is preamp dependant at some level. I sold my Groove for this reason alone. When it came time to experiment with loading I couldn't. I broke my Urushi & purchased a new cartridge & needed to change my load. Now I just open up my phono stage & unplug the resistors (Vishay S-102, or you can use whatever you want in this type of configuration) and switch values. I have several values between 100 & 1000. I don't have 700 or 800 though, which I would like to try. I am using 500 on 2 of my cartridges currently. The Condor & the Eminent. I am still slightly confused with this as changing VTA can also "tune" the sound. I know that HP uses his Dynavector fully open & a few friends use the Dynavector w. 1000 ohm loading. I really believe it has more to do w. the preamp. My guess is considering the Groove to be solid state & similar in some ways to mine you will be fine w. 562 ohm load. I wonder if memebers can chime in here & recommend a fully open Groove & use plug in resistors @ the input terminals?
PS, I ended up using my Bheringer mike w. my computer Spectrum Analysis software to do some room tuning. A lot more to go. Thanks for the advise.