Another worthwhile point…what are your speakers? Vented speakers are highly sensitive to inputs below their cutoff frequency…sealed boxes self-damp in that range. Record warps can cause gross distortion with a too compliant cartridge with some speakers. Higher order alignments are more susceptible. Solutions? High pass filter in phono preamp, viscous damping in tonearm. The latter is not really an option with your Technics, so if you have fluttering woofers, an HPF will help, a steeper filter than the IEC 1st order. Even a somewhat less compliant cart would not eliminate this problem entirely…if you have it.
High Compliance Cartridge With Low/Med Mass Tone Arm
I am using an Art 9xi with a SL 1200G turntable.
Dyn Compliance on the cartridge is 25 after converting from
the Japanese standard. Tonearm mass with stock headshell is 12 grams.
The stock headshell is the lightest I can find.
Using the Vinyl Engine Cartridge Resonance Evaluator, the
resonant frequency comes in at the middle of the 7Hz yellow area.
I know this is not Ideal.
Question: what should I be listening for to determine if this is not
a good match? What negative sound characteristics would be
apparent?
Thanks for any input.