Quote Originally Posted by helma View Post

If possible, getting the loading right with the MP-500 might help. Here's a graph what different capacitive loads do to MP-11 - http://www.tnt-audio.com/jpeg/nagaok...r_response.gif - I think the body is of higher inductance than the MP-500 and stylus is obviously very different, but it gives you an idea what happens to the freq response when you adjust loading.
Thanks for this, Kai. How do you adjust the capacitative loading of a MM phono stage. As far as I can see, both the Audio Note and NVA items come built with 47kOhm resistive loading, but for capacitative loading, you get what you are given. Regards. Gary.