@atmasphere that is my fear that my preamp my tone arm and cartridge all together are problematic, the least I suspect would be Pass but its possible XP17 don't like something in the configuration. I was thinking about secondary turntable, i didn't yet figure out what its gonna be but RP4 or 6 sounds good to me. Do you have any expirience with ML or Red in specific tone arms ? what works the best ?
Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question
Guys anyone here has any experience with the Pass XP-17 settings for Hana ML?
I just switched form Pass XP-15 to 17 and its totally different animal.
Just to compare them both with the gain set at 66db and loading 333ohm they act completely different, while 15 gets maximum bottom and fantastic detail 17 sounds great at the top and the midrange but bottom needs improvement. Would anyone run 47K ohm?
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@ssg308 I have teh ML in a Technics SL1200G arm at the moment and it works fine. Plug and play with my preamp; no need to mess with loading. One of my employees has the ML in a Triplanar and it works fine in that too. |
@atmasphere I'm running VPI with 10.5 arm |
I owned the Pass XP-15 for many years and have been enjoying the XP-27 for several. I dont find the difference between 15 and the 27 to manifest through different loading. The 27 sounds different (and a little better) at all settings. Like Lewn, I have never heard a big difference between 100 ohm and 47 kohm loads on LOMC carts. Like ssg308 reports, big differences in character can be discerned with different gain settings. My conclusions are that the Pass phono preamps can handle RFI generated by LOMC quite nicely. Hoping that ssg308 enjoys the Unami Red. |
I think SSG is saying he hears a big difference between 47K ohms load and any value equal to or less than 1000 ohms, where 47K sounds bad to his ears. I didn’t see where he talked about gain per se. So Karl, how do your Pass phono stages sound when you load LOMC cartridges at 47K ohms? And which cartridges have you tried? |
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