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RE: Agree!

Posted by amandarae on November 26, 2009 at 16:42:26:
Hi Tre',

See post of another member above (link below).

I thought the reason why we try to figure out the right cart to tonearm matching is to avoid the rumble (low freq) that the system will pick up if there's a considerable mismatch? Am I wrong with this?

Rumble figures aside, I am just saying that in my experience the Denon 103 series sound much better when using a heavy arm than with a mid mass (14 or lower) tonearm. In fact, when I posted this before, someone commented that using a heavier arm on a 103 is like "polishing a turd" (show's you how much intelligence and education of the person where it came from). I am just stating my observation that work well in my system the way I prefer the sound in my system, nothing else.

In my case, using 5 as the compliance figure on a 103(8.5 grams) with 11.6 grams headshell plus fastener weight and 16 gms tonearm mass (Schick 12 for example), the figure comes out to be 11.8347 Hz and 8.82 Hz at compliance of 9. Either one gets me close to 8-12 Hz range as preferred by many. I use wood shells for my 103's and that increases the 8.5 gms weight of the cart, and IIRC, the resonant freq is about 10-ish for the combo.

regards

Happy Thanksgiving!

Abe