Fantastic SQ and great music by Byrne/Eno. Mastered by G.Calbi@Sterling.
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Ahhh….so you don’t have the standard jumpers that seem to be indicated? Yes, it does look confusing, but if I understand, installing jumpers at #2&4 on the MM slots would give 200pf capacitance, and a jumper in the #5 slot of the MC slots would give 980 ohm resistance. At least I believe that is what I am seeing. |
Steve, it seems like if you have the standard jumpers, you have many combinations to try. You really cannot hurt anything by experimenting 🙂 Not sure you really need to use the custom slot/jumpers. Might have worked for the previous owner, but may not be necessary for you. Perhaps a custom resistance jumper to attain 400 ohm? That is not offered via the standard jumpers. Again, Peter states a min. 470 resistance for the Sussarro. Just guessing here. Also may be worth calling Soundsmith to ask what capacitance would work best with the Sussarro, as they don’t give that info (N/A). |
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@slaw @bkeske Agree w/Brian that trying the various loading resistance options can't hurt any more than turning a tone control would. I'm pretty sure that capacitance settings only affect MM; that's why Soundsmith doesn't have a recommendation for it regarding their MIMC & MCs. Most MM phono stages have only one fixed value that is so common that almost all MM carts are built with it in mind. OTOH, I've seen old threads encouraging tweaking capacitance on certain models if you have that flexibility. So Steve, you have that flexibility if you ever experiment w/MM. |
Thanks Spencer, as I have never had a phono pre with capacitance setting options, I did not know it was only used for MM. The MIMC and Sussarro are still MI (moving iron), but as they are both lo output, I believe work more as a MC carts vs MM. If Steve is using the custom 400 jumper at the MC resistance slots, that may be a tad low per Peter’s recommendations. Again, I prefer my MIMC at 1K, and have read other lo output SS (MIMC, Sussarro, Voice, etc) users prefer the same. But as I said, if I had the option of 800-850, I have a feeling that may be perfect.
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Hey Brian, I sent a PM. I was reading through my manual'. MC loading is resistive. MM options are said to be capacitive. I think this is the standard. The loading "dock" area in back allows for two inputs with a r/l channel for each input. You can do 2 MC carts, two MM carts or one of each. The front panel button switches between input one and two .
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