You guys rock. Thanks so much for the thoughtful replies. Much food for thought and extremely helpful.
So if you have a 40 ohm load for for a 60+ rated cart, what is the (theoretical or actual) sonic impact of that being on the low side, AKA marginal territory? Forgive my ignorance. Just not sure what the downside of that is in practice.
The included math is very much appreciated.
And the Marantz is adding nothing because i'm passing though it with a regular line input on pure audio mode so it shuts off everything else that could interfere inside the pre/pro and I'm not using the Marantz phono input. So the PrimaLuna is currently doing all the work +/- SUT which I'm trying to consider how to integrate.
Cheers