Don’t want to hijack the OP’s post but I have a related question for you impressively knowledgeable fellows. I know very little about how this all works: I simply enjoy the warm and liquid sound of records. Anyway, I’m told that the moving-coil input impedance of my 834p has been measured to be 515 Ohms. Is this maybe why my experiment with the Hana SL hasn’t moved me to the levels of enthusiasm expressed here and by so many others? It does sound very good to me, with lots of detail, but it’s not really any more emotionally stirring in the mid-range to me than my last couple of two-or-three-hundred dollar cartridges.
Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms?
I am tempted by the Hana low output MC cartridge which has gotten great reviews and seems good value. However the mfr specs say the loading should be > 400 ohms. My own phono stage only allows 100 ohms for MC cartridges-as do many others. Has anyone tried the Hana at 100 ohms and were you happy with the result? Also what difference should I expect to hear at 100 versus 400?