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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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Damping + Absorption or alternatively Damping + Efficient Dissipation.

These are the Criteria that are keeping TT Design at a place of divergence.

I have moved on from Mass and Absorption, and now am Wed to Lighter Weight and Efficient Dissipation.

There are Lighter Weight and Mass Materials that are equally impressive in the Damping Measurements.

There are Lighter Weight and Mass Materials that separate quite differently from how the dissipation measurements compare. 

It would seem a certain frequency of dissipation is what is selected by designers to as a means for their products to conform to a specific trait of a SQ or Coloration. 

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