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MC LOADING & STEP UP DEVICE

Hi;

After a great deal of research in this forum, vinyl engine's library of articles, and 6moons I have only utterly confused myself. I remain baffled as to how to properly match a step up device to a phono cart and MM stage. This is realy killing me as I am very eager to start experimenting with some moving coil designs. As a matter of fact I have 3 of them in my possession at present with no way to listen to them and I have been hesitant to purchase a step up without learning how to match it properly.

Is there a simple formula or rule of thumb I can follow?

What are the inputs that need to go into the equation?

What is primary and secondary impedence?

Please help me and I will forever be in your debt. Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.
dfelkai
axelwahl
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Hi Al,
I think you do make the better teacher then I feel myself, as you have it so well explained.
Let's see if this gets Dfelkai sufficient clarity to proceed.
Thanks again, and let's see what comes up next.
dfelkai OP
89 posts
 
I still can't complete the calculation. This is problematic as I am looking to get myself a decent matched step up in the very near future. Seems like there are some errors in the above calculations.
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almarg
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Were you able to follow all of my previous post? If so, why can't you complete the calculation (which I think my post essentially does), and what are the "errors" you are referring to?

Regards,
-- Al
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