Things often don't work out that way! It is a common mistake to assume that one item made by a particular manufacturer "must" be the best "match" for another item made by the same manufacturer... as the song says "it ain't necessarily so"... often different engineers or even different departments of the company may be responsible for the designs. Apart from this, some items may be regarded as pretty much generic or universal ie a 20:1 step up transformer properly designed for maximum bandwidth, lowest hum pick-up etc etc can be expected to work well with any MC cart needing a 20:1 ratio rather than being optimum for one specific model.
Arkless Electronics-Engineered to be better. Tel. 01670 530674 (after 1pm)
Modded Thorens TD150, Audio Technica AT-1005 MkII, Technics EPC-300MC, Arkless Hybrid MC phono stage, Arkless passive pre, Arkless 50WPC Class A SS power amp, (or) Arkless modded Leak Stereo 20, Modded Kef Reference 105/3's
ReVox PR99, Studer B62, Ferrograph Series 7, Tandberg TCD440, Hitachi FT-5500MkI, also FT-5500MkII
Digital: Yamaha CDR-HD1500 (Digital Swiss army knife-CD recorder, player, hard drive, DAC and ADC in one), PC files via 24/96 sound card and SPDIF, modded Philips CD850, modded Philips CD104, modded DPA Little Bit DAC. Sennheiser HD580 cans with Arkless Headphone amp.
Cables- free interconnects that come with CD players, mains leads from B&Q, dead kettles etc, extension leads from Tesco