SoundSmith Sassuro Paula and Manley Steelhead

Soundsmith's recommendation is for 2-4K loading. I'm loading mine at 2.2K and it sounds great. Don't know what would happen at 400 ohms but I suspect it wouldn't be good.
Why not speak to Manley to see if there are more loading options. That seems kind of restrictive. Even when I was running a Koetsu I was loading it at 1K.
Good luck.

I own a sussuro paua and am using a rogue ares phono loaded at 2.5k and am really pleased with the results. The previous owner of the cartridge was using it loaded at 2.8k.

The New Hyperion, Paua, and Sussurro can all be ordered at 470 Ohms loading option. This will soon become the new "standard" order for all these models - That will largely broaden the preamp capability.

Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith

Just to clarify, I wasn't at all suggesting that the MM inputs on the Steelhead are inappropriate for MC cartridges. My point is that the loading options jump from 400 to 47K ohms, both of which would probably be suboptimal for the cartridge in question.

Correction: the MM loading options jump from 200 to 47K ohms.