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Originally Posted by SL1800
I have received one from Amazon that was bad, the newest Diana Krall. It has severe distortion on loud piano notes.
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Something to consider SL. Your issue sounds more like overload of the phono. The Mac phonos don't handle loud passages well with medium output MC carts. Correct me if I'm wrong but yours looks to be 0.8mV. Need to plan on a preamp that can handle 10x this for any cart which would be 8mV for you. Your Mac phono tops out at 5mV so you will get distortion on ceartain loud passages.
I have a similar problem with Mac phono and a Blackbird cart (0.7mV).