AZ Nomad wrote:

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:18:11 +0000, Nick Gorham wrote:



Bret Ludwig wrote:


The moving coils are lighter but put out less energy than the moiving
magnets.



Voltage, maybe, but if you look at the source resistance of a MC, I am
not sure its less "energy".


energy too, but it's not as if your driving your speakers directly.
Fortunately we have an invention called the amplifier.


Yep, you are right, just compaired a Goldring MM and Ortofon MC, MM
about 3.5 times the energy out compaired to the MC.

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Nick