I have tried many turntables (MM and ceramic) to date with several different integrated amplifiers but was always unhappy because each cartridge has its own loading and impedance that is not matched by most phono preamps. That is exactly why you require a customizable phono preamp like the IFi iPhono but my poor ass cannot afford it. Moreover I have always thought that ceramic cartridges sounded as good as MM but couldn't find any good ceramic preamps. So I found myself a very cheap DIY passive filter EQ circuit, basically a velocitizer circuit that connects ceramic turntables (no preamp) to any decent MM phono inputs and this works excellent with the generic Philips ceramic cartridge 15GP224 and is even better than all other equipment that I have heard till date. I use the third diagram in this vintage article and its mentioned there that its response is better than most MM cartridges.
