Dear @rbschauman : Your phono stage is a solid state design a FET design with enough gain for almost any LOMC cartridge.
Been a solid state unit is " weird " its noise level spec, maybe a " finger error by CJ " . Something is not exactly clear/precise down there.
Anyway the Benz low output will works wonderful in your C&J combination.
Your SME 4 is a very good match for it too and the only advise to you is to add the damping SME mechanism for that IV model.
No, you don't need the Benz high output version. As a fact as higher the MC cartridge output as more degradation exist in the cartridge generated signal. This means that the 0.4mv is way superior to the high output version.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
Been a solid state unit is " weird " its noise level spec, maybe a " finger error by CJ " . Something is not exactly clear/precise down there.
Anyway the Benz low output will works wonderful in your C&J combination.
Your SME 4 is a very good match for it too and the only advise to you is to add the damping SME mechanism for that IV model.
No, you don't need the Benz high output version. As a fact as higher the MC cartridge output as more degradation exist in the cartridge generated signal. This means that the 0.4mv is way superior to the high output version.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.