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RE: Agree!

Posted by Tre' on November 26, 2009 at 17:37:55:
"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?"

We want the resonance frequency of the compliance/mass system to be above the warp tones (4-6) and below the music (20). So that neither will set it off. Most say between 8 and 12.

If we are at 10Hz we are one octave above the warp tones and one octave below the music.

If the compliance of the cartridge is really 9 then a tonearm + headshell + mounting hardware mass of 20 and a stock dl103r weight of 8.5 grams, a tonearm of 20 grams gets us there.

That's 20 grams for the tone arm, headshell and mounting hardware.

We would need a 40 gram tonearm + headshell + mounting hardware if the compliance was really 5 to get the same system resonance frequency.

In the end, it's whatever works for you.

Tre'