Resistor in phono stage

Awesome guys.You probably helped alot of us out.thanks

Hi,just letting you know.Everything under the hood appears to be standard.Over the last few weeks,ive weeded out 90 odd records.I now believe my problem was,,,with moving up the transparency ladder,my record collection needed adjustment.With a good recording Im very happy with what Im hearing.It is a little strange how a old new record has lost something.Anyway,I think im on the right track now.thanks

Good advice above. Also important is exactly which brand and type of resistor and capacitor you use. I prefer nude Vishay VAR resistors, available from Parts Connexion. For capacitors, styrene film and foil from Relcap, or just about any source, sound best to me (also available from Parts Connexion). Teflon caps can sound a bit hard, but not styrene.

I certainly agree about the (subtle) effects of resistors and capacitors, in any circuit, but in this case the issue of cartridge loading, if it were to be an issue, is dominant over parts quality, in my opinion.  Once you skew the frequency response, boutique parts are not going to fix that (unless you also change values to correct the frequency response).

misternice, I've left comments to those who know more about electronics than I do.  But now I must ask, have you experimented with VTA?  Some cartridges with some records can sound bright (as you reported) when set up with the standard parallel to the record alignment.  Lowering the tonearm a bit to tip the cartridge back can sometimes help.

I guess it depends if there was any music in those 90 records you'd like to retain.