If any of you guys remember J. Peter Moncrieff's International Audio Review ( IAR ), he spent quite a bit of time in a few issues charting and documenting what worked best with dozens upon dozens of cartridges. While this was quite a while ago and he obviously couldn't have covered the current models of today, his findings on many of those was that what worked optimally in terms of frequency response and noise characteristics RARELY matched the manufacturers suggested loading characteristics. He produced charts showing the both of these specs with the factory specs and with a few others for you to draw your own conclusions from. Sean >
