Artemis Labs Ph-1 owners.....

I have used mine with very good results with a cartridgeman music maker III

Hi Glide 3,

Thank you for responding. I was hoping more owners would have responded so I could get a better feel for the cartridge output range that works well with this phono stage. I have both phoned and emailed Artemis Labs directly and they won't give me a direct answer so thus the reason for turning to the forum.

I have heard the artemis in two different systems with a number of different SUT's. The one thing i would warn against is going for more than say a 1:10 step up ratio unless you have a really low output MC (AN IO-J). We listened to some 1:20's and some 1:26's on both a Miyabe and an Olympos and moving to a 1:13 was a revelation and made a noted improvement in the sound independent of transformer brand. The conclusion I came away with was that the higher step up ratios were dynamically overloading the inputs of the artemis and lowering that gain caused more sonic improvement than the specific brand of transformer.

dave