Shindo Preamp/ T2 with Kiseki Purple

[Vinyljh]

The T2 comment by Keith is part tongue in cheek and part modesty. The Hommage T2 is the flagship transformer for EMT.

Jonathan

[mr. scratchy]

So I guess the new SUT would then fall in between the standard A23SUT and the Hommage T2 for use with the TSD-15 in terms of sound quality- correct?

[Vinyljh]

Correct, its quite a bit better than the 103 transformer with the TSD15.

Jonathan

[755a]

But the T2 homage rules supreme!

[fjn04]

The T2 took the place of the standard (Denon) A23 , a Hashimoto HM-7, and the Standard (SPU) version A23 in my system. I also spent some time with the Silvercore SUT. The T2 easily bettered all of the above in my setup.

[querstrommotor]

To come back to the original question - I have to say, that the statements in the review, you mentioned in the first post, we should taste with a grain of salt - I never found a mc - regardless of it´s origin, where a little bit more or less loading makes a difference described in the review.
Also loading with resistors in an "active" RIAA stage is something totally different, as with a SUT.
Further loading is always system dependent and seldom it can be used as a general advice.
The capacitance of the used cables from mc - to SUT or RIAA stage is one very important parameter in finding the best "electrical damping" - and once again - loading via a SUT has a completely different effect than with resistors - also the numbers found in either way cannot be compared.

A simple example is a DL 103 - with a SUT put into a RIAA with 47Kohm input impedance the DL103 sees 100Ohm (not 40 which you read sometimes - as 40 is written in the SUT....).
If you want to use the DL 103 with an active RIAA stage and you want to cope the sound found with the dedicated DL 103 SUT, you will use something arround 400 Ohm via a resistor...

Greetings from Berlin

Ekki