Cartridges and phono settings

[Mikeeo]

Tried to see if I could make my bars go higher or lower tonight. Tested one output level only 10 uV over (ie 570 uV) the Benz spec output and the a doubled one at 1100 uV.
Here comes the funny bit; No change on the meters behavior, still just slightly under -40 dB for both settings, however at the lower setting I def. had a louder sound than the higher output setting. What does this mean? The bars/meters have no practical use in 'optimizing' signal from phono. So what are they actually showing?

/Mike

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I also tried the 192 kHz setting but I couldn't hear any difference or at least I was ambivalent about it.

/Mike

Changing the gain by only 3dB may well not be noticed on the somewhat small display.
There is no sensible reason why the 192 setting would be different. All the extra data only contains any information in the 48kHz to 96 kHz octave...

Yes you are right, 3 dB will not be enough, I will test again with bigger change in gain at some point.
Though the 192 setting is to our ears smoother in the top freq but without losing details. Blind tried it with the wife as I couldn't trust myself, wanting to hear this or that

Well, try for your selfs/Mike