[geoff]

"Trevor" wrote in message
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"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
news:kJ-
- I'd really like to try the Grace 802. Besides the great pres, it has
superb
on-board A-D. Inputs are nominally 5K; was thinking perhaps I could get
away with
series 39K (or 44K if I can find a precision value in that range) to make
the
cartridge happy.

You should probably rethink that. Given a nominal cartridge output of
around 5mV, you will get around 0.5mV into the Grace after the 44k+5k to
5k attenuator, then you need to boost the bass by about 20dB. Not
necessarily a recipe for improving on a cheap phono pre-amp IMO.

Trevor.


And cutting your dynamic range, and raising the preamp noise.

geoff