More output from Analog set up, MC Transformer?

Dear David: Very nice audio system, especially the Living Voice speakers.

First, your cartridge don't have and can't have that extra " little oomph ", that you are looking for.

Second, you don't need an MC transformer. The Clearaudio gain is enough for the 26db gain of your Premier 17.

Third, your Aleph 3 has only 20db of voltage gain. So you need to push the Premier volume. That's all.

Fourth, your Premier 17 is a high output impedance one. So you need to check with Conrad Johson which will be the best match cable for this preamp. Now, the Koetsu had a soft sound and your Premier too, maybe is too " much of the same " .

+++++ " The Kondo is out of my price range, " +++++. Thank God is out of your budget. Please, do it you a favor: don't use any additional stepup transformer: any SUT do a heavy degradation on the signal that comes from your cartridge. Period.

My advise is that try to test another cartridge like: Shelther 90X, Sumiko Celebration, Van denHul Grasshooper IV, Transfiguration Temper W, etc.... All these cartridges have that extra oomph that you are looking for.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Audio999: +++++ " Listening is the only count not spech. " +++++

I already try/test at least ten of the best SUT ever made, including Expressive technologies.
Any one of them can't give a better QUALITY sound reproduction. It is imposible to do that for a SUT. This is not spech.

What you have is an easy handle ( more gain ) of the signal by the preamp. So you have more quantity but no better QUALITY. Please don't mix up. Use common sense.

If you need to use a SUT, this fact does not " say " it's better. You are degrading the quality sound reproduction on your system.

Please don't insist about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear David: I forgot: the Aleph 3 is a Mosfet input/output design, it is in the " soft " side sound reproduction, too.

I confirm my advise: try other cartridges, including the Clearaudio Discovery.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Audio999: +++++ " I'm not counting/hearing quantity with using SUT.
When i said "much better", i meant the quality . " +++++

You really don't know nothing about. You are " only hearing ", but you don't know really what are you hearing. It is unusefull to continue this dialogue, I repeat: you don't know nothing about and can't understand that subject. Sorry.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Tbg: +++++ " I use it with the Ortofon and will never go back to just a high gain phono stage. " +++++

Which one or which ones high gain phono stages are you talking about?

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.