Any of you experiment with optimal VTA for Benz Micro Cartridges
Well I recently bought my first really high end turntable - Transrotor Fat Bob S - and it came with a Benz Micro Ebony L cartridge. I don't know what the hell I'm doing in terms of turntables and I'm utterly mystified by how anyone knows about what "tail" their cartridge prefers. Looks like I'll have to bookmark this thread and do some learnin'. |
@prof Nice turntable. This discussion was about the slope of the cartridge, back to front, with comments that the BM sound better with with the back (tail) of the cartridge slightly higher than the front so the comment "tail up". I hope you have plenty of gain for your Benz Micro Ebony L. The output is very low. |
@jperry Thanks. I barely can remember the difference between a MC and a MM cartridge (in fact, if you asked me right how...I couldn't tell you before having to look it up again). But I've had a much more turntable-experienced pal advising me so I think I'm ok. Some info I found on my Benz L cartridge: The Ebony L (.26mV at 3.54cm/sec, 5ohm coil impedance) optimizes with high gain phono stages (>60dB) with input impedance of less than 300 ohms or when using step-up transformers. And this is the phono stage I bought: http://www.myaudioelectronics.com/eng/itemdetails.asp?id=P000001 It seems (as far as I understand it) to have the flexibility to accommodate the Benz cartridge. |
Good to have that confirmed, Jim. BTW, what is the point of a manufacturer making such a low output cartridge? It seems to me in theory come with the liabilities of higher noise in the system, not to mention needing a phono stage with enough gain. I seem to remember once reading that low output MC cartridges had at least in theory some advantage for sound quality, but I'm not sure what it is. |
