We did an all-night tonearm / cartridge session on Saturday night.
Schröder / Triplanar / Universe / XV-1s / Benz LP
Jeez, I'm getting too old for this abuse.
Truthfully, the difference between 35 ohms and 78 (the resistors I had on hand) were very subtle. I should have made this more clear. The change from 105 to 78 however was definitely noticeable and significant.
I didn't want to get too deeply into loading on this thread, but I might note that as my system resolution increases (thanks to the Karna amplifiers and Azzolina horns), I'm seeing the Universe prefer less loading - being currently at 20 ohms.
I plan on further experimentation with the Universe based on this.
I'm planning on further experimentation. I was quite surprised by this recent trial, because I had been running in the area where Doug had been - a touch higher than his preferred 7.8 - at 9 ohms, but in that general range. I'm not sure what's going on here, other than perhaps a reduction of high frequency resonance elsewhere in the system.
This is one reason why you should look at loading from a system tuning perspective and not as an absolute ... much as we wish this were otherwise.
Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier