JWM10 with TNT Cartridge help PLEASE

500 people or so will probably write and tell you not to put the 901 0n the jmw10. FWIW, I did (Aries 2 & jmw10)and I enjoyed the combo (and will again if my 2nd arm wand ever gets here).
A popular and less costly way to go for your set up is the Dynavector 20xh or xl, I had this combo (the xh) and it was really very good for the money. If I was smart I could have stayed with it and been happy.
Above is all IMHO & I know didly about the two cartridges you mentioned.

Kehut - Am not a champion of ignoring compliance, am curious though. A lot of times system matching doesn't work out & for a lot of different reasons. Also you are not the first to find a Lyra Helikon to sound a little lean for their ear on their system. Is there a reason to conclude that the lean sound on your system was definetly a compliance issue?
If you have this type of compliance mismatch, is a lean sound the typical sonic flaw or are there other telltales to listen for?

Kehut - Have been thinking about your note above.
The Helicon is spec'd at "Compliance: Approx. 12 x 10 x (1/1000000) / dyne at 100 Hz" , haven't found spec's yet on what would be ideal for a jmw10, but I thought the Lyra's spec's were middle of the road & it should tend to be forgiving for most arms?
Other thing, I stold the following from audio asylum;
"Compliance figures given for cartridges don't always tell the whole story. They are usually dynamic compliance at 100Hz, which may have little similarity to compliance at 10Hz resonance. For example, I have a Denon DL-301II, which is specified by Denon to have 13 mm/N compliance at 100Hz. However, this cartridge actually has a static compliance of 35 mm/N and a compliance at resonance of about 26 mm/N. It is really a high compliance moving coil, as is the DL-S1."
Which kind of mirrors a gut feel that a single compliance number was maybe an oversimplification.
Still haven't come to comfortable terms on the issue, my gut tells me that some notes I read about woofer pumping being a potential compliance issue (and sometimes fixable by adding mass to the headshell and rebalancing) might also be on track (no pun intended).
Best Regards

Kehut - Interesting (or maybe not, but anyway I thought it was), took a gander at VPI's website today. They now offer a 3 gram weight for use with low compliance/low mass cartridges. Whether or not it would make a great difference I have no idea but the price was only $15.00.