EAR Phonobox = HORRIBLE

Lew, as I said, it seemed unlikely that the impedance mismatch would cause the

On the EAR phono stage when low gain (MM) is selected the input impedance is fixed at 47K and cannot be changed, except by selecting high gain (MC) where the input impedance is, again, fixed at 470 ohms, set by adding a 1:10 transformer ahead of the tube stage.

OP, it is not a waste of anyone’s time as some of the suggestions will help the next person with issues. Everyone here was just trying to help. We have all done it, glad you got it sorted; that’s what it is all about. Enjoy the music.

Viridian, Sorry for my somewhat vitriolic response.

Come on, OP, we want to know!

So, there is a push button on the back to switch from MM to MC. On initial listening, I THOUGHT I was listening to MM but, I was on MC (with a MM cart). So, it sounded like crap.

I pushed the button again and it sounded great.

So, in reality I moved from MC to MM and the expecte resuts.

All good.

First thing that I said, and Lew said, so great! 

No vitriol Lew, you are a great gent!