Denon/Shelter with SME 309 and Ear 834P


Hi!

Anyone know if the Denon 103R or Shelter 501 will work with this combo? If not, any suggestions on compatible cartridges?

Thanks in advance.

Mike
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Showing 3 responses by twl

That setup should work out fine, as long as you have some reasonable gain in your linestage. Either of those cartridges should work well in your 309, and the 834P has 68db gain for the MC section, which could be enough depending on your linestage. The 834P is loaded for the MC input at 515 ohms, from what I've read, which is a bit too high for either the Shelter or Denon, but probably won't be too bad. They both like to be loaded at about 100 ohms. Have fun.
The impedance won't be a real big deal, but if you can change it to 100 ohms, that would be the value you'd want to have it at.

I think with a linestage that has 16db gain, you will have just about perfect performance.