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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1
Post Subject: The strange phrases....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/24/2009
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 Axel wrote:
In my case I got more resolution with primary loading, BUT it gets very quickly too bright with even small changes, sounding all wrong. The 18k on *secondary* sounded fine, but was missing some more detail that I know from connecting the cart straight with no SUT and using full 78dB gain of phono….
 
To me it is one of the indications of problem to load primary. By loading you damp the coil of cartridge; you do not EQ the cartridge’s output. Sure the frequency response changes but it shell not be changing drastically, it is not the capacitive loading of MM cartridge. It is like selecting VTA – you shell not use “brightness” as criteria. If adjusting loading on primary “gets very quickly too bright with even small changes” then it is a wrong place to change damping of the coil. Also, I am not convinced that what you say is truly “more details”.  In many cases an insufficient loading gives a sense of hyper-resolution that I do not like. It is like loading the plate of SET amps – go too idle and it begin to fracture sound with micro-particles giving an impression of what they call “resolution”. I do not say that it what happen in your case but I would never use the phsase  “too bright” or “resolution” or “details” when I think about proper loading

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