Shelter 901: Optimal Impedance

The optimal impedance will be different in different systems.

It is best to determine what impedance sounds best to you in your system. Just try all the options on your phono stage and decide for yourself.

No damage will be done by experimenting with impedance on your phono stage.

Sean

Thanks Sean. Am I correct that no capacitance should be used? It doesn't reference any setting in the instructions.

Sarcher is right, it's system dependent.

I would just try all the available settings. I found that for my cart, the midrange popped into focus at a certain setting, and it was quite a bit higher than the value everyone else was using.

If you have to supply your own resistors, I'd try maybe 3 resistor values, like 1000, 500, 100 Ohms.

MC carts *shouldn't* be sensitive to capacitance, but you might want to try different capacitive loading anyway, or tonearm cables with lower capacitance.

While it's true that it's system dependent, 100 ohms is the place to start.

Shelter dealer.