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ADJUSTING THE MAGENTA TT10 TURNTABLE
CARTRIDGE LOADING
Is the sound shrill and are the high frequencies accentuated? Or is the sound too dull and lacks transparency?
In any case you should check the loading of the cartridge. The phono input of your (pre-) amplifier should have the right capacitance
to meet a specific moving magnet cartridge. The higher the capacitance the duller the sound. So check the specifications of amplifier
and cartridge given by the manufacturers.
A moving coil cartridge should be connected to a phono pre-preamplifier which has an input impedance of at least 2 1/2 times the
value of the impedance of the cartridge's coils.
The impedance of the input of a step-up transformer should be the same or slightly higher than the value of the coils of the cartridge.
Check the specifications of the cartridge and the specs of your (pre-) amplifier or step-up transformer, and see if they match.
PLAYBACK CHARACTERISTICS
Before the RIAA playback characteristic was generally adopted, record companies cut their records as they thought would make the
music sound best on their own equipment.
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