Brent,
are still talking SUT? Please note that the values you had discussed related to non-SUT, straight into your phono-pre gain stage, the way I understand it, and the values look to me. I do not know your specific cart but ~ 500ohm could be fine to give you some "air" without getting the sound too "fluffed out", loose, chirpy, uncontrolled, what ever you want to label it.
There are not no many carts that go OK with 47k, as it seems to depend on the internal damping of the typical MC rise in the treble.
Only some MC designs are OK with 47k, and some would argue NONE at all.
Again, if you talk SUT, and specifically truly low output ones then the loading values for SUT use change drastically in my experience, but we have already gone into all of that, no?
Cheers,
are still talking SUT? Please note that the values you had discussed related to non-SUT, straight into your phono-pre gain stage, the way I understand it, and the values look to me. I do not know your specific cart but ~ 500ohm could be fine to give you some "air" without getting the sound too "fluffed out", loose, chirpy, uncontrolled, what ever you want to label it.
There are not no many carts that go OK with 47k, as it seems to depend on the internal damping of the typical MC rise in the treble.
Only some MC designs are OK with 47k, and some would argue NONE at all.
Again, if you talk SUT, and specifically truly low output ones then the loading values for SUT use change drastically in my experience, but we have already gone into all of that, no?
Cheers,