Cartridge gain and loading (Fig. 3)
Caution: THIS OPERATION CAN ONLY BE DONE WHEN THE UNIT IS DISCONNECTED FROM
BOTH THE HVDM POWER SUPPLY AND THE AUDIO SYSTEM
Your whestTHREE comes preset for a low output moving coil cartridge requiring a gain setting of 65dB
and a load setting of 100ohms. This will be fine for the majority of moving coil cartridges. If however
your cartridge requires a different setting you can either ask your dealer to set it for you OR you can
easily do it yourself in just a few minutes:
i)
the whestTHREE comes supplied with a 2.5mm Allen key. This Allen key is used to remove the
small rectangular panel underneath to access the gain and load settings. After removing the 2
screws that hold the panel, you will see 4 banks of switches - 2 banks per channel (Fig. 3)
ii)
The 1st bank of 8 controls the load to the cartridge and the 2nd bank of 8 controls the gain of the
whestTHREE which should be matched to the cartridge.
DO NOT
match the gain to your system -
only match the gain to your cartridge for optimum performance
.