BL: Apart from home cdps usually rather being ~ 2 V, seems like you'd need a little brushing up on your Dezibel related maths, man!For the average MM stage you can usually expect a gain of ~ 35 - 40 dB, which already equals a voltage gain factor of ~ 55 - 100. For MC it's typically some 20 dB more (= factor 10 more or factor ~ 550 - 1000 in total).
I.e., for a typical MM with some 5 mV a usual phono stage would produce ~ 12 to 17 dB less compared to the cdp - however, that's only an approximation, 'cause one can't quite compare vinyl and cd there for several reasons.
Shall I go into detail (question not directed to you in particular, BL, as I'd imagine you might already know...)?
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
Thank for the refresher. Been 30 odd years since I was in electronics class and even then I hated log scale anything. I hated dB conversions then and I do now. Much prefer linear systems like volts and micro-volts, even if the numbers get crazy big, so as I said, if my feeble brain could recall, the dB ratios were ...
Like FM tuners, what's wrong with stating FM sensitivity in micro-volts? Why did we all switch to dB,? But that's just my rant. Lini - Always feel free to correct anything I say here as I'm not always in charge of 100% - getting old. Don't even know why I introduced db into that diatribe in the first place :scratch2:
But the point is amplification comes in ranges for the job at hand. And the more clean amplification you buy, the more it costs - that's a fact :yes:
