Phono Cartridge Loading For Moving Magnet?

A double win then, your fave cap fitted in and the result was what you hoped for, or at least had a reasonable expectation of achieving.

I use a big illuminated magnifier to deal with a lot of circuit work these days myself.

Interestingly, Terratec marketed a phono EQ for computer soundcard input a few years back that included 3 different capacitance settings and 3 gain levels.

Cap levels were 100, 200 & 425pf - did not use it a lot, but IIRC, the 200 loading sounded rather better with an Ortofon OMB 10 that I used with it at that time.

I think there has been some discussion on and experimentation with, various loadings, over at vinylengine for anyone who is interested in reading further.