Questions about a new Ruby 2 cartridge

You might want to try 100 ohms loading for starters, but also play with the VTA a bit. The Ruby in my experience clearly has a sweet spot in the VTA, and if your VTA is too high it can sound bright. Good luck; it is a nice cartridge, shouldn't sound as you described.

Yeah...definitely play with the loading. I found 100ohms to be a little too compressed and dull. I did some research at it seemed like people recommended ranges from 300 to 29,000. The distributor recommended trying the 900ohm range and it worked for me. I ended up settling on 1000ohm Vishay resistors for my phono pre. VTA and tracking force also have a huge effect on the sound.

I too found that vta made a big difference. It will be bright sounding if the vta is too high.

I bought my table already set up with the new benz 2. It sounded very good as it was. Because it was FREE, I had my table tuned/adjusted by a local turntable god (and good friend). He's set up over 100 tables and spent over an hour on it. This made a HUGE improvement. The cartridge is not bright nor edgy at all.

For the loading, from the reviews I have read they settle on 22K or 47K. I use 47K. I use a basis 2500/gram2.2/qf tonearm/passlabsono.

I used the Ruby, too.
It needs about 50 hours playing time.
First it is like you wrote but it will become better and better. After 100 h it is great.
all new cart. need some playing time, some more, some less.
Your 47 k setting is the right one ( when other
setting - lower- sounds better, then is something wrong in your system ).
In your manual from the Klyne there is the right setting listed.
Definetly, VTA is important, I used it a touch higher in the back.