Records weights or pucks -heavy or light?

Be careful with heavy weight clamp as it can affect your bearing. Your turntable's bearing only can tolerate up to certain weight including the platter. Check with sumiko first.

This is purely a matter of personal taste plus what your turntable bearing and motor can take without undue wear and speed instability. I have owned belt-, direct- and idler-drive tts. I personally do not like heavy center weights on any of them.

Thanks for the input. I checked with Sumiko and they said that using the Pro-ject Puck should not pose any problems, either with the motor or the bearing. Interesting since the puck is almost a 50% increase in the weight of the platter.

I've done some experimenting: I set up a mock weight on the turntable of about the same weight as the Pro-ject Puck and noticed no slow start or belt slippage. I compared the sound of this arrangement to the lightweight Pro-ject screw clamp, and also to nothing on the spindle at all. The screw clamp gave the overall best result in terms of clarity, bass and imaging. A bare spindle gave the weakest results and the mock weight of about 850g was a strong improvement over the bare spindle but lost out to the clamp.
I thought I might get some improvement of speed stability with the 850g weight(a 42% increase in platter mass), but that wasn't the case.

So now, I'm curious about lighter puck weights, in the region of 200-400g. I'll investigate further.