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In Reply to: How do I tell if an arm is too heavy for a given cart (empirically)? I don't have data for either. posted by Damián on May 8, 2007 at 09:19:53:
S-shaped arms tend to be medium to high mass, and straight arms low to medium. The lower the recommended tracking force of the stylus, the higher the compliance usually and vice versa. Knowing this you would try to mate higher compliance cartridges with low mass arms and low compliance with higher mass arms. What turntable and what cartridge is it?Incidentally you can estimate the arm mass with one of those digital pocket scales they sell cheap on ebay. Just remove the counterweight and the stylus. And set the front of the cartridge down on the scale. Then subtract the weight of the cartridge without stylus. It's not exact but close enough to give you an idea of the mass category and even a number to plug into the resonance formula.
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