Cartridge or Pre Amp

Just a though...perhaps a bit off topic, cause I don't know if I would suggest a different cart, at least maybe not yet.

But what about high output MC? 

MC carts take capacitance out of the picture, which means more cable options. 

Generally speaking, where low output MC's put more demands on phono stages that MM's, high output MC's put less demands than both. 

Just, you know, something to consider. 

The 3 Laws of tubes

1. Thou shalt roll tubes.
2. Thou shalt use Herbies Tube Dampers.
3. Thou shalt use Graphene contact enhancer on the tube pins.

4th Law optional: Thou shalt cryo your tubes.

@geoffkait 

You forgot the law about recycling tube vacuum.

No mention about cleaning the vacuum.

My personal taste leans toward the use of natural vacuum instead of synthetic vacuum.  (I own a tanker car filled with liquified vacuum on a rail siding just outside Biose, ID.)

Cryogenic treatment of vacuum is essential.

Vacuum must be matched.  After all, mismatching tube vacuum just....   (wait for it....)  sucks.

My suggestion for creating natural vacuum is simple.  Just get your hands on a source of pure Hydrogen and remove the protons and electrons.  Neutrons will settle out at the bottom. 

It's possible to create even more vacuum by increasing the size of the vacuum storage vessel containing the vacuum.  The benefit of this is the increased purity of vacuum (see cleaning vacuum) and overcome the need to buy a vacuum cleaner.

BTW, I find bi-polar transistors acceptable as long as they are medicated.

Obviously sound can’t travel through a vacuum anyway. 😛

In space no one can eat ice cream. 🍦