Phono PreAmp Recommendations - Steve Hoffman Music Forums MC cartridge Trying phono stages was a good journey with some cartridges to match Not easy task, but why not In the end the brands war ended for me Now appreciating the new optical cartridge DS-E3 + matched Equilizer = very different from MC MM I use so far
How can I calculate my phono chains capacitance? How can you calculate the capacitance load on your cart? Well, you need to add together the capacitance of the tonearm cable, then the capacitance of the cable between the turntable and the first active device -- the phono preamp -- plus the capacitance of the connectors, plus the load capacitance of the phono stage
Receiver with phono input vs Phono Pre amp - Steve Hoffman Music Forums 1st stage is a phono stage or phono-pre ( actually a pre-pre-amplifier, which could even be called a pre-pre-pre amp for MC Systems) 2nd stage is the pre-amp, which encompasses the volume control and tone controls or equalizers