Empire EDR9 cart into Lehmann Audio Decade phono preamp, sounds awful

Heh, what a confusing interface. The phono sound quality for MC is absolutely amazing, but it's so hard to get the MM stage to work properly.

Who came up with such terrible user experience? Do the Lehmann designers secretly wish customers would only use MC carts?

Do you have an owner or user manual? If not, you can probably get one from Lehmann or any of several other sources on line.  Then read it. (Sorry for the sarcasm.)

The manual is available here. Looks straight forward once you know where everything is.

https://www.lehmannaudio.com/downloads.html

I've just installed Empire EDR9 cartridge on my Jelco SA-750E 10 inch tonearm, and connected it to my Lehmann Audio Decade phono preamp. The sound I got from this cartridge is shockingly bad. Dull, wimpy, limp, barely any highs or any slam or body.

I have set my Lehmann Audio Decade phono to work beautifully with my modded Denon DL-103 cartridge. I was curious to hear how would Empire EDR9 compare to DL-103, but it sounds so ridiculously bad, that it's not really worth comparing.

My Lehmann Decade is set to 100 ohms (seems to work fine for DL-103). I haven't touched the capacitance.

What am I doing wrong? I can't believe that Empire EDR9, which has a pretty hot reputation in audio circles, would sound so horrible.

I already explained this to you over on Vinyl Engine!!! What?? You can’t read??? I even posted the settings you need to use!! So now you post in here the same damn question????

36 dB gain, 100 pF, 47k ohm. This is SO NOT HARD!!!

SMH

I was gonna apologize for my sarcasm, than along comes Wolfie.  I'd be interested to hear a very fine MM cartridge try to drive a 100 ohm load.  That must be something.