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The question then was not inertia/overall mass of the arm.

I was responding specifically to someone with a VPI arm which had a very high RF with a given cartridge. One of the possible "fixes" ws a 3 gram or whatever weight from VPI which in THAT particular combination would have lowered the RF 1Hz or less. given the problem not really worth the effort.

I never said that increasing the mass at the extremes of the arm would not increase the inertia, in fact it does.

As for the fishing weights the amount a given amount weight effects the effective mass is proportional to the location relative to the pivot. In other words the 1 gram at the headshell has a much greater effect than 1 gram at the exact pivot point. It may increase the rotational mass without increasing the effective mass.

Now that can be a very interesting change in the arm mass but not the effective mass.

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  • The question then was not inertia/overall mass of the arm. - garth 16:32:55 08/06/05 (0)


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