atrocity wrote: 
> Thank you everyone for your thoughtful (and detailed!) responses.

Let me add a little more detail ! Although perhaps too much time has
passed by now.

It was a bit wimpy of me not to have a go at estimating the input
capacitance of your device of choice, so here we go: 3 feet of input
cable at, say, 30pF per foot = 90pF, plus, say, another 30pF for the
device itself = 120pF. I don't know how good an estimate that actually
is, but I don't suppose it would be miles out.

The result surprised me. With a 47k input resistance that level of
capacitance actually extends the HF response in a pretty flat manner.
Much more and we get a characteristic overshoot at HF - which, I guess,
would contribute 'brightness'. Increasing the input resistance (reducing
the damping) also results in overshoot.

So choice of cable is clearly quite significant. And a judicious
reduction of input resistance could tame unwanted highs. But 7k would be
overkill !

I've attached a (pdf) plot, capturing my earlier comments and this one.
It may be of interest. I've also attached the 'gnuplot' script which I
used to generate it, should you be minded to tinker for yourself.


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