Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed.
Hello! I hope you are all doing well!
I just purchased a new phono pre amp.
I have an older Benz micro glider moving coil cart with 1.1 mv output.
The pre amp has gain of 45db (mm) up to 65bd (mc).
Load settings for moving coil are: 10, 22, 47, 100, 220, 470, 1k, 22k, 47k.
I know that I should listen for myself to determine the best setting. But can someone with more experience than myself give me a range within which to start based on having used gliders in their systems?
Thanks !
Thank you very much for your replies. You guys gave me all of the info that I will need. @dover You saved me, BIG TIME. I totally forgot that the SFP1 required inverting phase on MC carts (which I always found confusing). I would have driven myself crazy trying to figure out why things would have sounded a bit flat and dull. You saved me from lots of stress. Thank you for being so astute as to catch that.
Enjoy the weekend everyone.
Judsauce |
@lewm thanks for checking in again. This whole phase issue is confusing to me. You had mentioned that it didn't make any audible difference. I have to be honest that I have not had any experience with hearing it in my system while out of phase.. But I'm still shaking my head as to why Sonic Frontiers requires inverting it for mc carts, which is the preamp prior to my new one. Will have to say though: the SFP1 modified at parts conexion sounds fabulous. The only problem is if you want to change carts you have to take off the hood and do calisthenics to set loading values. Modified vintage is great, but give me dials on the front panel, please.😊 Best regards |
@quincy No hijack at all. I totally agree with you about this whole phase inversion issue. Color coded wires on the carts are there for a reason and are universal. So, if a manufacturer needs to invert it for some reason, why don't they just insert a toggle switch internally? Would be a heck of a lot easier than to have to deal with tweezers and changing the wires. And I don't know about you, but if you look at my virtual system, it is not so easy to change the polarity of my speaker wires. Maybe someone can tell us why the phase inversion is necessary at the cart. Regards |
@dover Thank you both for extremely informative and well written posts. It totally shines a light on a subject I knew very little about. I'm going to have to normal up the leads on my cart for my new phono preamp. I don't look forward to it. I first inverted the leads years ago for my SFP1 preamp, but I did it before I set up the cartridge for the table. This time I'm going to swap and normal up the leads while the cart is still on the arm. Wish me luck! 🙄
Thanks again |
