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I keed your help??, re my whole system

Hello friends
My system is bellow!!, I live in Australia, the nearest hi fi shop, is three hours away!!
1. "once analog" tt, with a Zu denon 103 cartridge
2. JLTI, solid state phono stage, with RCA loading, I normally run from 100ohms, and 150 ohms
3. Proceed pre amp "solid state", feeding fully balance XLR, cables to my mono tube mono blocks, that run KT88, out put tubes!!
4. Pair of YSA, mono blocks, that are fully balanced, the cables are no name!!, going to:
5. Pair of Zu Audio Souls MK !!
Friends, Audio where I live is non existent,I was hoping some one in the know, can give me a guide!!
The problem, is the bass is fine, to make it even better, I will swap to KT150 tubes!!, but the main problem, is that maybe 40% of my LP's, new  and old, are perfect, condition!!, but I don't want to keep playing, my LP's, that sounds the best!!
I just want to ask, I will keep the mono blocks, but am i'm, best to replace the proeed solid state pre amp, with a tube unit, and still run, the solid stage??, I feel, if I rplace, both with tube's it might be to light,as I like kick arse bass, with nice Cynbels, but not harsh!!, or would I be better with a tube phono stage, with volume stage, to run the YSA, mono blocks, ratered at 85PW
Friends
Hoping some one can help!!
Many Thanks
David
daveyonthecoast

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What he means by less loading is to increase the value of the resistance that is terminating (loading) the cartridge.The increase in terminating value is referred to as "less" because the higher value pulls less current from the cartridge.

Also the quality of the loading resistor is something commonly overlooked. I always advise to use common resistors to dial in the value. Then, once you find a value you like, search out a foil resistor (Caddock mk132, Vishay Z-foil...) and use that.

BTW some DL-103 users like to terminate their carts with really high values, like 5k ohm.

I like the DL103r with variable active loading from 300 to 50 ohms.
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