For most MC cartridges, as Chakster said, any load resistance above 100 ohms will certainly "work". People do argue about how a particular load resistance "sounds" with a particular LOMC cartridge. If you will read the contentious thread on this subject that is still alive, you will see that most agree the load should not appreciably affect frequency response, until you get way down near the internal resistance of the cartridge itself. You won't have that problem. I suggest you can ignore the issue; you cannot do anything about it anyway, as your Lamm seems to use a built-in SUT to derive gain sufficient for your cartridge. It also seems the secondaries of your built-in SUT are loaded with the 47K ohm resistor used when you connect an MM cartridge. I am guessing that the SUT has a 1:10 turns ratio, which means it increases the output voltage of the cartridge by 10-fold, to drive that 47K resistance. (10-fold voltage gain is the same as "20db" of gain, quoted by someone else.) Since the net resistance "seen" by the cartridge is fixed to the value obtained when 47K is divided by the square of the turns ratio (in this case, 10^2 = 100), your MC will see ~470 ohms (47K divided by 100). You cannot change this without some surgery to your unit, and I don't recommend it. You'll be fine.
Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart
Does anyone have experience with using the Lamm phono stage with a low output MC cart with .25mV output? I will be using the Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe preamp. Some reviews caution using a MC with such low output, while other reviewers seem to suggest no problems. I would rather not get a SUT.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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