Any electronic geniuses here?


When looking at a setup like this, LOMC to a step up transformer (SUT) to a MM phono stage, would changing the impedance of the MM input alter what the LOMC 'sees' at the input to the SUT?  This is a purely technical question so please, no opinion pieces on the arrangement.  Thanks
russashe

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Of course, yes.  And I am no electronics genius.  The impedance seen by the cartridge will be equal to the input impedance of the phono stage divided by the square of the voltage step-up ratio afforded by the SUT.  In other words, if the phono stage has the typical MM standard 47K ohms input resistance, and if you use a 1:10 SUT, the cartridge will see 47K/100 or 470 ohms.  If you change that 47K resistor to some other value, that would make a corresponding change to the load on the cartridge.