Along with my new turntable, I purchased a new cartridge to go with it. It's the Grado Sonata 3 Timbre. While I like its sound, I do find I have to turn up the volume very much compared to the previous Grado Sonata 2. For unknown reasons the high volume setting bothers me some.
The Timbre is low output (though not a MC), so I thought of putting it on my C2300's MC input to see if that would change things. As is, I turn up the volume roughly 20 notches higher than previously depending on the recording.
Maybe a very naive question, but would the 2300's MC input compensate for the low-output, or am I just getting weird over nothing? I would have to disconnect everything and change out the tubes in the 2300's MC section, which I'm hoping to avoid. Since I never planned to use the MC input, I put $10 JJs in there as placeholders, as opposed to the Telefunken Black Diamonds in the line/MM inputs.
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