SoundSmith Sassuro Paula and Manley Steelhead

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.

Dear Retipper, if there will be any sonic degradation if using 470 Ohns Paua with 400 ohm MC Manley Steelhead MC input?

No - none whatever. The 470 Ohm models of Paua, Sussurro, and Hyperions will have a bandwidth of 28KHz at 400 Ohms, so more than enough to cover normal bandwidth AND using even more loading (if desired) to tune the top end down if needed for your taste.

Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith

For the Soundsmith Hyperion, Paua or Sussurro:

More information: You can go into the MM input, set the gain at 60 or 65 and the loading at 47K, and use a dual "Y" RCA adapter at each phono input jack. By soldering a 1K (or whatever you choose) resistor across a male RCA plug and inserting it into the open female jack of the "Y" adapter, you can set the loading to whatever you wish!! NO COMPATABILITY ISSUES AT ALL.

From their website:

Manley Steelhead

It has two Moving Coil inputs with selectable impedance load 25, 50, 100, 200 and 400 Ohms via Mr. Clever "Steelhead" transformer/autoformer. It also has variable and selectable Moving Magnet input impedances too 25, 50, 100, 200 Ohms and 47 kOhms.

It's got selectable gain 50, 55, 60, 65dB on a switch that even auto-mutes as you change it so no nasty bangs. Gain switch markings are referred to from the input of the 1st active electronics at 1 kHz to the fixed output @ 10k load, regardless of whether source is MM or XFMR stepped-up MC.

Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith