Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question

I don’t quite understand your last post, except it seems you’ve checked the cartridge and speaker wires and the two channels are NOT out of phase. Do you understand that point?

the rest of your last post eludes my grasp. The issue I focused on is why the 47K ohm setting sounds so uniquely awful. There shouldn’t be much if any difference between 500, 825, and 1000 ohms load with your cartridge and either phono stage. Which is to say they should all sound fine and not much different from 47K ohms.

well I have no idea why they acting like that but to me it's a new endeavor with TT and cartridges and phono stages... I guess I'll keep working on it till I'm satisfied. maybe Hana ML is not the greatest match to my tonearm ? would that make such a problem. ?

Again, you’re relatively happy with load resistance other than 47K ohms, so a mismatch between cartridge and tonearm is not high on my list.

I would conclude that, MC cartridges (at least in my case Hana ML) and XP15 works with loads anywhere between 100-333 ohms sounds the best,  and XP17 will work the best between 100 and 1000 ohms for optimal best sound. 

OK.