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Another funny point

Some of them hate preamplifiers and say they must have a "passive preamplifier" with no gain stages or the distortion masks the sound. Then they buy a moving coil cartridge which needs ten times as much electronic gain as a moving magnet cartridge. And BTW, what does a moving coil do for them? It works on exactly the same principle as a moving magnet cartridge except that with the mass of the coil many times that of a magnet, the high dynamic mass contributes to a high frequency peak which is very hard to damp out and the added tracking force needed cuts record life by a factor of four or greater. Love that high frequency peak...especially with those tube amps.


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