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RE: Weight of Hadcock GH 242 tonearm?

Posted by mnawaz3@aol.com on September 13, 2020 at 20:23:42:
in my tonearm experiments i found that there was no difference in behaviour between light and medium weight arms on MOST MM cartridges. your 309 probably has similar specs to smeV. my smeV handled all the MM cartridges i threw at it (nottingham tracer, grado, goldring 1024, music maker 2, technics, black pearl, and a lot more.

i liked my vintage hadcock (more in fact, than smeV -- which is a good arm but kinda boring ). when i researched newer hadcocks, i remember them having similar effective mass to smeV. so i passed. my guess is that the newer hadcock will be a side-step but probably a positive one on some cartridges.