@atmasphere : Wrong, my Phonolinepreamp is designed in the rigth way. As I said you are not dicovering the black thread, at least not for me.
One gentleman that can attest about those absence thicks/pops that you think I have is @cardani whom attend to my place not one but several times and he can chimes on it.
No the issue is that the advise is really useless. Please think that any audiophile already owns an audio system where as
@krelldog only want advice to load his new carrtridge. He already has a phono stage and cables with a level of capacitance that normally for MC stages can’t change about and we have to live with what we own.
Where can we try to change capacitance?, maybe with a different IC cable but exist one problem almost no one of the cable manufacturers gives the cable capacitance value, here is an example in a very expensive cable:
https://www.kimber.com/products/KS-1236 so now, we have to own a voltimeter/multimeter to measure our own cable and how can we decide for which change it? and if we change it how can we know it works as the theory says?, yes, we can buy another one and another one till we find out the one that could help because we can’t eliminate at 100% those thicks/pops no matter what. Additional we already own a tonearm that the tonearm manufacturers normally ( few does it. ) does not gives the tonearm internal capacitance.
I have no problem in my system but add the capacitance/MC issue to all " thousands " of critical subjects that we have to take in count to achieve a decent analog experiences makes no sense to me when many audiophiles ( including me. ) are trying not only to understand but to obtain information of the best way for match tonearm with a cartridge, its correct alignment, loading, setting-up: VTA/SRA, VTF, AZ, AS, platter mat, clamps, TT plattforms, phono stage RIAA deviation, Phono stage noise/distortion levels, Phono stage output impedance, etc, etc etc
There are priorities and the capacitance is certainly not a critical priority because normally is out of each one of us control. Lucky the ones that has the rigth phono stage but that capacitance subject is not for any one can " lost " his dream. It’s not practically.
@krelldog, read what @larryi posted and forgeret of all those capacitance issue that you don’t have it.
R.
