Fleib, with all due respect, rather than calling my comments BS, why don't you look into the matter? I suggest you look at the comments of JCarr (Jonathan Carr of Lyra, who is active on this forum) about the effects of cartridge loading. Or how about reading this article?
http://www.hagtech.com/loading.html
(the closing summery of which is that 'Load resistance tunes damping'...)
In a nutshell you will see that I am correct. Loading of LOMC cartridges is one of the more prevalent myths in high end audio LP reproduction; I was under the same illusion until years ago I tried to make a box that would determine the correct loading for any LOMC cartridge. It was during that research that I discovered that loading of the cartridge itself had no effect at all on the output waveform at audio frequencies.
The reason is simple enough: the inductance of the cartridge is rather slight. Its impossible for a load to have much effect other than reduce the cartridge's output at audio frequencies in extreme cases. What is happening is that the inductance of the cartridge, in parallel with the capacitance of the tone arm cable, forms a resonant circuit, as Hagerman's article outlines. This can be simply ultrasonic but might be at several MHz. If the phono preamp is unhappy with this sort of signal at its input, you will hear effects, effects of which are easily controlled with a 'loading resistor' which damps the oscillation by detuning the resonant circuit. IMO/IME it is better if the phono section is stable and therefore immune to such things in the first place- it sounds better that way and its a lot less trouble.
http://www.hagtech.com/loading.html
(the closing summery of which is that 'Load resistance tunes damping'...)
In a nutshell you will see that I am correct. Loading of LOMC cartridges is one of the more prevalent myths in high end audio LP reproduction; I was under the same illusion until years ago I tried to make a box that would determine the correct loading for any LOMC cartridge. It was during that research that I discovered that loading of the cartridge itself had no effect at all on the output waveform at audio frequencies.
The reason is simple enough: the inductance of the cartridge is rather slight. Its impossible for a load to have much effect other than reduce the cartridge's output at audio frequencies in extreme cases. What is happening is that the inductance of the cartridge, in parallel with the capacitance of the tone arm cable, forms a resonant circuit, as Hagerman's article outlines. This can be simply ultrasonic but might be at several MHz. If the phono preamp is unhappy with this sort of signal at its input, you will hear effects, effects of which are easily controlled with a 'loading resistor' which damps the oscillation by detuning the resonant circuit. IMO/IME it is better if the phono section is stable and therefore immune to such things in the first place- it sounds better that way and its a lot less trouble.