Cartridge incompatibility, Soundsmith and Luxman

The location on the board for the resister is probably either surface mount or sized for a 1 watt or less resister. 1/4 or 1/8 watt is fine. Vishay? How's about 42 cents.     

Obviously you know nothing about quality resistors. Vishay is a big company, and they make dozens of different types of resistors, much like Caddock. So not all Vishay resistors are created equal. One might debate the need for or an expensive nude Vishay in this application, but in my experience there is a soupçon of an increase in SQ associated with that choice, and it’s a cheap luxury item. Like I said, Caddock TF030 are very transparent as well. I doubt I could hear a difference between a nude Vishay TX series and the TF030. Form factor of the Caddock can make it difficult to install in a PCB designed for a standard through hole resistor. 1/4W would actually be overkill; both of these types are >1/4W.

no, i don’t know what is right after the initial loading R. 2 lazy to hunt down a schematic..but the guy with something like 11 patents ..and said inventor of the cartridge in question seemed interested in the schematic… there are after all things, nasty things like tanking circuits… Alas, i am just a retired Economist with a soldering iron and a penchant for surfing the far edge of utility functions of laser trimmed input R, double blind be dammed….

best to all ! 

Dear @lewm : " Obviously you know nothing about quality resistors ".

I think that @mijostyn  knows what he was talking about and certainly you don't.

The linked Vishay resistors ( at lower than 1 dollar price. ) were and are a world electronics standard ( not only in audio. ) just as Wima is in the whole industry standard for capacitors.

The next link is the 17K+  Reference Phono 3SE by Audio Research and guess what: Vishay Roderstein an Wima:

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This another example of what @mijostyn linked. Is the Westminster phono stage. btw, did you know of its existence?:

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The Vishay Z foil is not an industry standard and yes it's the Vishay resistor with the highest quality and it's not the only Z foil in the market. The Charcroft is a Z foil resistor too.

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The 0.42 cents resistor linked inside >Mouser is good enough for the op unit and for almost any other.

The Z foil is a true killer for that Luxman.

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I doubt I could hear a difference between a nude Vishay TX series and the TF030. 

I have actually done this comparison in the loading position of a MC input stage and the nude bulk foil Vishays are considerably more transparent.

Would the quality of the resistor matter differently if the loading resistor is a voltage divider in parallel with the signal from the cartridge vs. the loading resistor being a shunt to ground?