Afaik, the ADept does not support use adjustable EQ, except for a few, fixed presets.
Thanks, I misunderstood the product's features.
Afaik, the ADept does not support use adjustable EQ, except for a few, fixed presets.
meh.. you only connect the ADC if necessaryOk, but all in one device, a little more convenient
What manipulation are you thinking of exactly?Load on SUTs can matter, but you need a low impedance source and scope to figure out what that will be, or someone who already has for the SUT and cartridge you’re using.
Load on LOMC doesn’t matter much at all as they’re primarily DCR. Shoot for x10 as a general rule, but it’s so not critical. The load may matter more for the phonostage if it doesn’t behave well.
At the bottom of the page: https://www.sowter.co.uk/specs/8055.htmWhat manipulation are you thinking of exactly?
Remember usual advice on LOMC applies to low impedance LOMC (ideally less than 10Ohms but will somewhat works up to 20Ohms) otherwise it really depends on your gear and what matters to you. If your phono preamp doesn't have an "internal sut" AND present a too high load to your cartdrige this will both tame top end (and give more bass if you that's your thing) and affect the resonant peaks of the LOMC. Even if these are usually not in the audible band they may result in overloading the phono stage which will be detrimental to the sound (similar to intersamples over) and cause more ticks & pops.
While analog phono have sufficient headroom to deal with all of those, this is less the case for ADC devices such as waxwing (MC -> 2.7mv overload) & adept (MC -> 4.2 mv overload in low mode) therefore i think proper loading will matter more with these devices. By providing selectable input impedance (50 Ω, 100 Ω, 1 kΩ) the minidsp Adept provide a very useful hardware feature.
thank youAt the bottom of the page: https://www.sowter.co.uk/specs/8055.htm
I probably misunderstood some of the explanations on load effect, especially wrt direct cartdrige load (no SUT), so please correct me if I'm wrong (here to learn).You're really hard to follow as you appear to have your highs and lows in regard to load effects backward, in addition to misunderstanding what "wide open" means - lini corrected that in the very next post.
I probably misunderstood some of the explanations on load effect, especially wrt direct cartdrige load (no SUT), so please correct me if I'm wrong (here to learn).
Are you saying that aside of (SUT and) bad engineering of the phono stage, input load of the phono stage has no real impact on LOMC in audible range ?
Thank you very clear! Impact on FR is very unlikely and otherwise unaudible (less than 0.1-0.2 db in your graph).![]()
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Use the 10 Hertz compliance number - 16 - to see the resonance for the Traveler. Looks like both are in the green! i also use the korf graphs ... http://korfaudio.com/calculator i don't know if it's better or not, but Korf have objective arguments about it, worth reading.www.audiosciencereview.com
Is that really the case?IS the best "raw" ADC phono for your cartdrige