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High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference?

As I am recently back playing with analog gear after some 15 years away, I thought I would ask the long time experts here about the two major camps of record players -- high vs low mass-loaded-type tables...

For example, an equivalently priced VPI table (say a Classic, Aries or Prime) versus a Rega RP8/10 or equivalent Funk Firm table...  the design philosophies are so different ... one built like a tank, the other like a lightweight sports car...

Just wondering if the folks here have had direct experience with such or similar tables, and what have been your experiences and sense of strengths and weaknesses of these two different types of tables.



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lohanimal
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@geoffkait  and @pryso  
made very good points i.e. corvette vs Lotus and that there are lots of variables as opposed to Low vs High Mass.

Take into consideration a deck like the EMT 950 which has a very light platter but has a substantial chassis/plinth and a very heavy/powerful motor.
I am personally intrigued by the Rega Naid which is ultra low mass - the reason being that I had once believed MASS = BASS. I understand that the Naid ain't lacking in the bass department. Likewise the DPS ain't heavy mass but when I heard it - due to the powerful motor and resistant bearing it produced sledgehammer bass. 
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