On 12/03/2015 13:53, Don Pearce wrote:


The bottom end looks pretty good.The 4dB drop from 2kHz 9kHz would be
the sort of adjustment a mixing engineer would make to remove some
"air" from a recording. Equalise that back up to flat, and suddenly
sounds played from this cartridge will gain a lot of sparkle.


I tried some gentle eq over that range. Yes, the brightness of the sound
is enhanced but so are surface hiss and clicks of course.

Obviously, there are compromises to be made depending on the state and
content of each record. How much eq if any, manual or auto declick, to
denoise or not, how much time I want to spend etc. etc.