OK, guys, I have been reading this thread & also Romy's fruitful comments (!).
I have a question for all of you: how does the quality of the loading resistors make any difference at all to the sound?
The loading resistors are connected between the phono input & GROUND or step-up xformer secondary output & GROUND. Thus, the loading resistors are *not* in the signal path. There might be some shunt signal current (coming from the cartridge) flowing thru these loading resistors to GROUND but the other end of the resistor is not connected to the phono pre in. These resistors *should* not affect the sound at all. Are you guys just going over-board selecting high-grade resistors for simply no reason?
You can see this on Jim Hagerman's website where he has explained cartridge loading. Notice that the loading resistor is connected to ground (in parallel with the load capacitance, which represents the phono pre input capacitance + interconnect cable capacitance).
Any *useful* comments would be appreciated.
I have a question for all of you: how does the quality of the loading resistors make any difference at all to the sound?
The loading resistors are connected between the phono input & GROUND or step-up xformer secondary output & GROUND. Thus, the loading resistors are *not* in the signal path. There might be some shunt signal current (coming from the cartridge) flowing thru these loading resistors to GROUND but the other end of the resistor is not connected to the phono pre in. These resistors *should* not affect the sound at all. Are you guys just going over-board selecting high-grade resistors for simply no reason?
You can see this on Jim Hagerman's website where he has explained cartridge loading. Notice that the loading resistor is connected to ground (in parallel with the load capacitance, which represents the phono pre input capacitance + interconnect cable capacitance).
Any *useful* comments would be appreciated.