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Kuzma 4Point9 arm. What have you found to work well? How are the Kuzma CAR cartridges compared to others?
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The cartridge compliance matters or else you will deal with unwanted resonance. You need to know the effective mass of the tonearm. You must also know the mass of the cartridge plus the hardware, as well as the compliance value. Plug these numbers into the calculator....
https://www.vinylengine.com/cartridge_resonance_evaluator.php

Upon doing this, compile a list of the cartridges that fall within the acceptable resonance parameters and choose from there. You will see that the resonance should fall somewhere between 8-11 or 12 hz to work well with your arm.
Generally speaking, a low compliance cartridge works better with a high mass arm, and a high compliance cartridge works better with a lower mass arm.