SUT and/or phono stage for My Sonic Lab Signature Gold cartridge

[ctlmdphd]

I just bought a MSL Signature Gold cartridge and need a new phono pre with or without a SUT. It seems a MSL SUT 1030 would be the logical choice. I don't have a voltage-based/MM phono stage. What would you recommend?

 

[Yeti]

Internal impedance 1.4?, Do you have a current based one? Doesn’t look a bad match.

 

[ctlmdphd]

Internal impedance 1.4?, Do you have a current based one? Doesn’t look a bad match.

I do have a current based phonostage, Einstein The Perfect Match. I hooked it up to an oscilloscope, and it seems to be saturating.

 

[Yeti]

Not a Perfect Match then, unless it performs better in a system context. Beyond me I’m afraid.

I like my Naim superline a lot with the top ps option but I’ve just had a lesson in just how sensitive it is to loading resistor, something you dodge entirely with a current stage. No idea how it would work in a different system context either.

Here in France Ana Mighty Sound handle MSL, I heard a few models at their show room when I took my Proteus in for a rebuild. My focus was mainly on the decks, I think they were using Phasemation, Consolidated SUTs and briefly Sculpture A with Phasemation and an internal Dartzeel phono stages but I wasn’t paying that much attention beyond the arm leads.

 

[ctlmdphd]

Got in touch with Einstein, and they confirmed the cartridge produces too high of a current (voltage/resistance), and they have a fix for it. So, I'm sending it in for a modification.

 

[ctlmdphd]

I just got the Einstein the Perfect Match back from modification and sounds great! No more saturation/distortion.