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I’m not writing to dispute any of the above; I’m sure it sounds good. Art is a smart cookie and has ears. I love reading his stuff, even about things I wouldn’t be in the market to buy. But I need to check my assumptions, some of which point to questions. I’m assuming we’re talking the “N” version of the EMT TSD 15 SFL, since the regular has its own headshell and wouldn’t fit on a Graham arm. I’m also assuming the Hommage T2 transformer has a gain of 20 or 30 times. If so, the Leben phono amp must have serious overload headroom. I say this because Art has referred to the EMT cartridges in the past as low-output moving coils, which I don't think they are. The website gives a spec of .21mV output for them, but references it to 1cm/sec, not the customary 5 cm/sec we are used to. As such, they’re actually high output moving coils, in the neighborhood of 1mV. Amplifying this by 20 or 30 times before the signal reaches the phono stage, suggests some real headroom if this is not to cause distortion. Yes? No? “Jane, you ignorant slut!”?