Sooo, back to the Valab

Its been left on for a week and had probably 15-20 hrs of records playing. I've spent a bit of time fiddling with the settings and so far the Fidelity Research FR-1 Mk3 that's currently hanging off the Bergmann seems to prefer 200 ohms and a gain of 67 db. Quite pleased with it tbh, regardless of the money it sounds pretty good so far. Very very quiet.

Next step is to experiment a bit more with different gain settings, and then have a go with the MC head amp set on zero gain and the Valab at MM output. There's 4 impedance settings on the H-Z1 to play with inc 470 ohms to compare.