I find the lower you go in resistive loading the farther back and smaller the center image. It gets to be very good sounding at 500 ohms or over. I use 1K and it images nicely and sounds very balanced using a PASS LABS XP-25 and VPI classic 3.0 table.
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The capacative loading seems to have little effect, so I use 100 pF + the tone arm lead capacitance so figure another 60 pF for my 5 foot Belden ICONOCLAST RCA's.
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The RUBY Z is a very natural sounding cartridge, without the hi-fi "zing" so common to many cartridges. The mid range is especially refined although JUST better than the bass definition and treble smoothness. This MC cartridge makes stuff just sound "right" verses trying to change the music to what it wasn't originally.
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If you want some ZING type of thing, or a more aggressive attach speed this isn't your cartridge. For that I use a SUMIKO Blackbird. A LYRA DELOS would be a second choice for a nice but more lively sound. I say second on the DELOS ONLY because it is more expensive, not that the LYRA isn't better overall.
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The capacative loading seems to have little effect, so I use 100 pF + the tone arm lead capacitance so figure another 60 pF for my 5 foot Belden ICONOCLAST RCA's.
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The RUBY Z is a very natural sounding cartridge, without the hi-fi "zing" so common to many cartridges. The mid range is especially refined although JUST better than the bass definition and treble smoothness. This MC cartridge makes stuff just sound "right" verses trying to change the music to what it wasn't originally.
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If you want some ZING type of thing, or a more aggressive attach speed this isn't your cartridge. For that I use a SUMIKO Blackbird. A LYRA DELOS would be a second choice for a nice but more lively sound. I say second on the DELOS ONLY because it is more expensive, not that the LYRA isn't better overall.