If capacitance sucks:
Eliminate the 2KHz pole in the RIAA preamp
Load-down the cart with a smaller resistor, 5K-10K.
That's how the early Shures were supposed to be worked.
Doing that loses the chance to ring-up the 15KHz zone with a perfect combo of L R and C. Grados don't do that; many Shures do. Given some other reference (calibration disk) you could EQ this after the preamp.
I do MUCH prefer putting most of the preamp IN the record-player. This only made sense when tubes were king. I mean, how often do you find tape-decks without internal preamps? (I may have retired some of the last of that bad idea.) Back in 1976 my preamp was 1"x3" (plud 4 inches of optional bypass caps). As JR says, today SMD could be smaller.
Eliminate the 2KHz pole in the RIAA preamp
Load-down the cart with a smaller resistor, 5K-10K.
That's how the early Shures were supposed to be worked.
Doing that loses the chance to ring-up the 15KHz zone with a perfect combo of L R and C. Grados don't do that; many Shures do. Given some other reference (calibration disk) you could EQ this after the preamp.
I do MUCH prefer putting most of the preamp IN the record-player. This only made sense when tubes were king. I mean, how often do you find tape-decks without internal preamps? (I may have retired some of the last of that bad idea.) Back in 1976 my preamp was 1"x3" (plud 4 inches of optional bypass caps). As JR says, today SMD could be smaller.