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phono stage / step up for Koetsu carts

Now that the hunt is over, Koetsu be it. Can anyone here share info on which phono stages you guys are using with the Koetsu cart ?
How about step up transformers ?
I read that these Koetsu are sensitive to loading and optimal is 100 ohms.
thanks again for the info.
all the best....
nolitan

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samhar
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I just bought a Joule LAP-150 Mkll and have been using the stock impute of 47k Oms. This is working well but I want to try 1000 Ohms as I think that may be the optimum setting for my system. When I was using CJ Act2 and Pass XOno I tried 120 Ohms, it sounded slow and the imaging was congested. I tried 1000 Ohms but liked 475 Ohms/1.922gr VTF best and stayed there. The current setting is 1.863gr but recent P/C changes have altered the sound and a heaver VTF may add desired fullness to the "body".
samhar
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Thanks!
I don't think so, the CJ/Pass set up was very revealing and there were no compliance issue that I was aware of then and none now with the Joule.
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