What a complex exchange for a relatively straight forward issue. Look up the Black Swan, fully front panel continuously adjustable loading and gain, tweak it by what I call earball, set all the variables while listening to it.
Which SUT? .... for .3mv/10 ohms MC cartridge into 3mv MM input sensitivity
Please help me choose a SUT for my 1st MC cartridge.
Now I have more than enough volume using my existing MM cartridges thru my mx110z MM Phono input which says sensitivity 3mv/47k ohms impedance.
AT440ml is 3mv.
Shure 97xe is 4mv
Shure V15VxMR is 5mv
Grado ME+ Mono is 5mv.
coming tomorrow: AT33PTG/2 MC .3mv/10 ohm coil impedance/dc resistance
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signal boost, am I getting it right?
1. Is 3mv a MINIMUM strength for the mx110z input?
2. .3mv x 10 = 3mv (+20db correct?) (minimum boost therefore x10/+20db)?
3, if correct, is .3 x 20 = 6mv equiv to +40db?
4. if so, a SUT providing +40db is more than enough for the .3mv and any likely future MC?
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impedance/loading: I am not getting it.
I read about a general rule: coil impedance x 10 for ____?
A33PTG/2: 10 ohm coil x 10 = 100 ohm
too high impedance sounds thin? bright?
too low impedance sounds dull?
(how?) (minimum?) (where?)
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Thanks as always, and this time I will definitely wait for advice before getting anything. I am not in a hurry for this, Bill will loan me one of his SUT’s until I get my own.
Elliott
Now I have more than enough volume using my existing MM cartridges thru my mx110z MM Phono input which says sensitivity 3mv/47k ohms impedance.
AT440ml is 3mv.
Shure 97xe is 4mv
Shure V15VxMR is 5mv
Grado ME+ Mono is 5mv.
coming tomorrow: AT33PTG/2 MC .3mv/10 ohm coil impedance/dc resistance
..................
signal boost, am I getting it right?
1. Is 3mv a MINIMUM strength for the mx110z input?
2. .3mv x 10 = 3mv (+20db correct?) (minimum boost therefore x10/+20db)?
3, if correct, is .3 x 20 = 6mv equiv to +40db?
4. if so, a SUT providing +40db is more than enough for the .3mv and any likely future MC?
.........................
impedance/loading: I am not getting it.
I read about a general rule: coil impedance x 10 for ____?
A33PTG/2: 10 ohm coil x 10 = 100 ohm
too high impedance sounds thin? bright?
too low impedance sounds dull?
(how?) (minimum?) (where?)
......................................................
Thanks as always, and this time I will definitely wait for advice before getting anything. I am not in a hurry for this, Bill will loan me one of his SUT’s until I get my own.
Elliott
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barry thanks, I'll check it out. I get the earball thing, now that I realize what it's all about. I've resisted even mouthing the words Moving Coil since they needed humming boosters when I was young, it is all new to me. I enjoy learning, and sharing my finds with 'imagined' others. I'm a retired Interior Designer, specialized in Corporate Headquarters: New, Relocations, Renovations. Interior Architect actually, as practiced in NYC, PA, Wash DC, traveled hither and thither. I became more informed bit by bit progressively for 50 years. I researched everything, designed much custom work, selecting, presenting options to my clients, ordering a gazillion things. Select and present a full line of chairs, mail room to President's office, for a new 250,000 sq ft headquarters project, it's exhausting. I was not going to tell a client 'this is the best choice', and find something 'better' that I didn't know about a week later. Now, for myself, i.e. that Fidelity Research FR-4. It truly appeals to me, and it did not pop up in my search until after a lot of searching. No one mentioned it. New, it's features and quality, would cost ___? It's hard for me not to 'add to cart' and put this search to bed. |
Demagnetizer, who loses sleep over this? Miyajima Labs sometimes include demagnitizing built in "When several months pass, a stepup transformer and the cartridge are magnetized. The demagnetizer short-circuits ... " If true, couldn’t I use my demagnetizing wand for my reel to reel decks for this? |
You may want to do some reading here. I think it will help answer many of your questions, and answers to your questions, about cartridges and SUT. Lots of great info on all things hi fi. https://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/d.mpl?audio/faq.html |
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