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Absolutely, why not experiment! Here's a *trick* to get 50ohm without *any* resistors, no soldering, nada ...

Remembers Garth's 100ohm resistor (in parallel with the phono stage's 100ohm) to get 50ohm? And you have two phono stages, correct?

Well just get the "Y" adapters and (using a second interconnect) hook up *both* phono stages, set each to 100ohm and ... voila! ... the cartridge now *sees* 50ohm! If either of the cartridges sound better like this then going the next step ... resistors, soldering, etc. ... would make sense. If not then you're out the price of the Y adaptors only!

(I actually did this once and experienced the effects of reduced effective loading resistance. It had me stumped until I realized that I was of course putting the two loading resistances in parallel.)


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  • Absolutely, why not experiment! Here's a *trick* to get 50ohm without *any* resistors, no soldering, nada ... - bjh 20:35:33 09/08/06 (0)


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