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Hoping someone can give me a hand with a cart and capacitance question..

New table has an SME 3009 S2 Improved (removable headshell). It has been reworked with Cardas wiring and Dave at Vinyl Nirvana says his arm guy estimates about 150pf including rca plugs.

I am planning on using a Shure V15III which likes about 400pf typically. I can’t find any data on the 20/20 and if that will add anything to the party, but I’m assuming about 100pf?

250pf total is going to leave me short of ideal.

I’ll obviously give it a listen upon arrival and see if I notice anything, but is there way to increase pf in this stream without a different phono stage that has pf adjustments if I needed to?
 
Slimwhit33 said:
Hoping someone can give me a hand with a cart and capacitance question..

New table has an SME 3009 S2 Improved (removable headshell). It has been reworked with Cardas wiring and Dave at Vinyl Nirvana says his arm guy estimates about 150pf including rca plugs.

I am planning on using a Shure V15III which likes about 400pf typically. I can’t find any data on the 20/20 and if that will add anything to the party, but I’m assuming about 100pf?

250pf total is going to leave me short of ideal.

I’ll obviously give it a listen upon arrival and see if I notice anything, but is there way to increase pf in this stream without a different phono stage that has pf adjustments if I needed to?
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Longer interconnects!

edit: any decent interconnect should tell you pf per foot, so once you have an idea of the rest of your chain you can wire accordingly.
 
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