Ortofon Per Windfeld Load Impedance?

Boy oh boy, it is really mounting here... Wagering on the outcome of Fail vs the world... I've gotta go with the world. LOL.

Everything I've said is correct Zbag.

OTOH, you've been wrong consistently as pointed out by Ralph, Raul, Jonathan, Tvad, me, and every knowledgable person.

However, you seem to excel at casting aspersions, name calling, and insults in general. Those seem to be your strengths as you consistently duck the issues at hand and divert attention from your lack of understanding with snide remarks and worthless posts.

How's that white paper coming along?

You forgot the entertainment value! Glad to see you and Raul have made up. Two peas in a pod... LOL

At one time we used this forum as a learning tool.Now we have someone like Zieman come on board,make statements without basis and tries to take jabs at others whom are much more knowledgeable.Fact is the only white paper Z is familiar with is hanging on a roller in his bathroom.Or is it his outhouse??

Jloveys,

I will have an opportunity this weekend to play around with a friends Tron Seven. Another mutual friend has it while the owner is out of town. The "agenda" for this weekend is tube rolling. My friend has a big selection of 12AX7s as well as the other tube (can't recall the exact type) which is roughly the equivalent of a 12AU7. I will be able to contribute a Telefunken ECC803S to the experiment. The friend who is now playing with the phonostage has had it in his possession before and really likes this phonostage (used with either a Lyra Helikon or Transfiguration Orpheus)>

I read your comment, above, about loading for the Allaerte cartridge. I can understand that the manufacturer has loaded the secondary of the transformer feeding the active stages of his phonostage optimally (one needs to dampen the transformer ringing), but, to me, there is room to optimize the loading of the cartridge by choice of the proper resistor in parallel across the primary. My own phonostage (Viva Fono) also has a transformer at the input. I have experimented with loading across the primary and have found that it makes a difference. The difference is not as dramatic as changes in loading in my solid state phonostages, but, there is a difference. The high numberic value specified by Allaerte suggests that it should not be loaded down very much (good thing given its extremely low output), so I can see how no loading of the primary works for you, but, I am a bit skeptical about the universal claim that loading would not make a difference with this phonostage.

The owner of the Tron Seven is also an owner of a Tron Jubilate amp. The designer has also said a lot of things to this owner about how performance of the amp has been optimized, but frankly, the amp sounded like crap to me in several different systems. It was only after we did some tube rolling, discouraged by the designer, that the amp sounded pretty good. I am just a bit skeptical about things the designer of this gear says (he also had a lot of excuses for the amps multiple power supply failures).