I've got a Denon DL-110. I used Devialet's default setting for this cartridge which seemed OK for most records. Just recently I bought Floating Points' Kuiper EP (just buy it, trust me!). This is a 12" with one track per side so plenty of opportunity for good signal/noise ratio.
Playing side 2 I thought that I was getting mistracking on the hottest parts of the cut. I'd also ripped the EP using Devialet's digital output into Audacity. When the rip was complete it was obvious from the Audacity trace that there was some clipping.
This got me experimenting and I finally got to the input level. The cartridge is specified as 1.6mV output but I played with the maximum level on the fly with the Devialet (love that facility!).
My 'max level' for the phono input is now set at 3.1mV - nearly twice the notional output! No clipping, no noise, no problem and certainly no mistracking.
I've since played some more records and they sound 'cleaner' so I suspect that there has always been some residual clipping on peaks that I just wasn't recognising.
Playing side 2 I thought that I was getting mistracking on the hottest parts of the cut. I'd also ripped the EP using Devialet's digital output into Audacity. When the rip was complete it was obvious from the Audacity trace that there was some clipping.
This got me experimenting and I finally got to the input level. The cartridge is specified as 1.6mV output but I played with the maximum level on the fly with the Devialet (love that facility!).
My 'max level' for the phono input is now set at 3.1mV - nearly twice the notional output! No clipping, no noise, no problem and certainly no mistracking.
I've since played some more records and they sound 'cleaner' so I suspect that there has always been some residual clipping on peaks that I just wasn't recognising.
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