Who said "people" can't hear differences due to loading an MC cartridge? Speaking for myself, I simply advised the OP that the fixed loading afforded by his particular phono stage would be fine. He has no other choice without spending many $$$. Also speaking for myself, I have been using 47K with two of my LOMC cartridges (ZYX Universe and Koetsu Urushi), but two of my phono stages do not easily permit it. (I have 3 phono stages in rotation using two entirely different systems.) In my additional experience, loads down to about 1000 ohms for those two LOMCs seemed a bit superior to lower resistive loads. After that, anything down to 100 ohms will certainly do OK. When the load R gets lower than about ~10X the internal resistance of the cartridge, SQ starts to get dull (a subjective impression) and gain is measurably lost (a fact), because some signal voltage is lost to ground. But the OP did not ask about any of this.
Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart
Does anyone have experience with using the Lamm phono stage with a low output MC cart with .25mV output? I will be using the Lamm LL2.1 Deluxe preamp. Some reviews caution using a MC with such low output, while other reviewers seem to suggest no problems. I would rather not get a SUT.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?