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In Reply to: RE: CartridgeCompatibility posted by John Elison on January 11, 2017 at 20:45:46
It is a fixed head shell.
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I believe the fixed headshell tonearm has effective mass of 6.5-grams. If you want to try a low-output moving coil, the Audio Technica AT-OC9/III and the AT-ART9 would be good candidates. I don't know much about moving magnet cartridges.
Good luck,
John Elison
So I need a low mass cartridge because calculated arm mass is low?
I think I need to read up on this.
No! You need a high-compliance cartridge with a low-mass tonearm. Both the AT-ART9 and the new AT-OC9/III are high-compliance moving coils. This is unusual because most moving coils are medium-compliance or low-compliance. Very few are high-compliance.
The mass of these cartridges are in the neighborhood of 8 to 8.5-grams.
Best regards,
John Elison
So after some research, this is where I am at:
I need a high compliance cartridge (> 12) based on my tone arm.
I understand that your recommendation of the AT -ART9 & OC9/III are high compliance MC cartridges. If I want to try a MC, this is one of options. Hopefully my pre amp can handle this.
Unfortunately, due to the nature of this deal I am in, my options are the Sumiko & Sound Smith brands.
The Sound Smith options are:
Boheme HO - Comp. 22
Aida HO - Comp. 22
Norma HO - Comp. 28, Med. Comp. 22
These are all MM, not an issue with my pre amp.
Sumiko options:
I do not see a high comp. Sumiko cartridge.
I think those Soundsmith cartridges should all work just fine with regard to compliance. Check with Peter Ledermann at Soundsmith. He's the expert.
Good luck,
John Elison
Thanks for the correction.
That Vinyl Engine website is great. I need to research this more...
The VE website is indeed great, but when you access their data bank on cartridges, keep in mind that private, fallible individuals have posted some of those cartridge specs, and they are not always accurate or edited by any "higher authority". It's something like Wikipedia.
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