Is there a list of cartridge capacitance?

Thanks Ncarv, that's a very useful site, unfortunately, no info on my cartridge.

Dear friend: Your Talisman is a MC cartridge that is not affected by capacitance, you don't need to worry about. What you need to worry is about load impedance.

Usually MM/MI cartridges are the ones that needs an specific capacitance load, normaly a LOMC does not needs.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

MC carts are affected by capacitance. Its just that the values are generally much greater than those that affect MI or MM carts, due to their much lower source impedances. It will affect HO MC more than LO MC.

On the vinyl engine site there is a calculator that can compute the impact of cable/preamp input capacitance on any cart, including MC, if you know the source resistance and inductance of the cartridge. Look under "database tools":

http://www.vinylengine.com/cartridge_database_tools.php

Then down to "Cartridge/Amp Loading/Resonance"

Input the resistance and inductance for your cart, and input capacitance values to see what the resonant frequency is. I think anything above 20 KHz is fine, so capacitance values up to that resonant frequency should be OK.

Dear Dhl93449: Yes, of course are affected but in our each one system in normal MC set ups has no " effect " so why speaks of something that is useless for whom is asking? why create more " confusion " on people that are not an expert on the subject as you are.?

Now, please share with us any first hand experience with a LOMC ( the Talisman on thread subject is a LOMC not a HOMC. ) cartridge where you change capacitance with a change in the quality performance level of that cartridge. I tried several times changes on capacitance values with several LOMC cartridges with out " effect ". Of course inside the capacitance values that normaly permits any phono stage.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

See the post by cartridge designer Jonathan Carr dated 8-14-10 in this thread for an explanation of the relevance of load capacitance to LOMC's.

Also see the discussion in this thread, particularly the comments by Atmasphere.

In general, with LOMC's the lower the load capacitance the better. Although whatever difference it may make will be dependent on the particular phono stage that is being used, and in some cases there may be no difference.

Regards,
-- Al