Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question

@ssg308 Its a good idea to make sure the arm and cartridge are compatible before you play with loading. If the arm can't track the cartridge properly because the mechanical resonance of the two it outside the ideal window, loading really won't help things.

Use this calculator to sort things out:

tonearm/cartridge compliance calculator

@atmasphere 

It looks like correlation arm/cartridge is spot on, static is generated somewhere between cartridge and Preamp I can't figure out if its is inner generated or pick from some kind of electric fields generated by what I suspect TV hanging above.

SSG, when you say you hear hiss at “above 70db”, are you talking Soind Pressure Level (SPL) or voltage? If SPL, bow are you measuring that? 70 db SPL at the listener position is not very loud. Anyway, hiss when you crank the volume control on a solid state preamplifier is usually a sign it’s gain is inadequate for the input signal voltage OR RFI.

static is generated somewhere between cartridge and Preamp I can't figure out if its is inner generated or pick from some kind of electric fields generated by what I suspect TV hanging above.

@ssg308 By static do you mean a crackling sound? One cause of this is a platter pad that has a high tendency to produce static electricity, such as one made from felt (which should only be used for DJ use and not in a home stereo as they have no sonic benefit).

You might also have a bad ground; a bad connection, the platter not grounded or the arm not grounded.

Normal line noise sounds like low background noise that you can hear when switching from let say CD input to Phono, and I get that one but  when table is connected to preamp normal line noice is covered with slightly higher pitch static like sound.