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Does 21g seem high for effective tonearm mass?

Hi there, I've been looking into these somewhat popular Jeclo tonearms. Actually the 10" liquid dampend unit SA-750e. I've got an email from Jelco and the effective mass is 21grams. Does this not seem shockingly high compared to nearly everything else on the market these days?
I plan to mount a Sumiko Celebration on it but I'm not so sure about the match. It seems this arm may be limited to cartridge choice and that would be too bad.
If anyone can shed some light on this it would be appreciated.
My other options for arms of course would be the Rega/moths, Hadcock and I can get a pretty good deal on a VPI classic arm.
This wasn't supposed to be confusing at all as I was taking a step away from my ET2 and trying to simplify my setup. Now it seems I've opened a can of worms
alun

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rauliruegas
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Dear Alun: No, 21grs is on the high part of a medium mass, there are high effective mass tonearms in excess of 40grs.

Don't worry about before you mount and test the Celebration on it, after that you can decide if that tonearm is a good match to the cartridge and remember that the Jelco is a removable headshell design so you always can use not only a different headshell weight but a different headshell build material that can help to the Celebration shows at its best.

If you can change the headshell stock wires for the Ikeda S-50 that you can find through an ebay seller: 2juki, this sole change makes a difference for the better.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
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