Technics EPA 100P - Tonearm

Fletcher designed his ''Breuer'' (aka Sumiko MDC 800) as an

''universal tonearm''. In contradistinction to  Breuer who refused

to provide his customers with any other counter weight than

the original Fletcher designed 6 counterweights for the MDC 800.

Those are meant for carts from 6 - 20 g . The idea being to get

the counterweight as near as possible to the pivot for each cart.

I never owned a Breuer but well EPA 100 and EPA 100,mk2.

Technics designed an complex counterweight but its weight is

not sufficient for carts of, say, 9 g and above. To put this as

simple as possible EPA 100 is suitable for the MM carts but

not for the MC carts.

Dear chakster, My introduction or context was given as (co)

relation between the cartridge weight and counterweight weight.

The lowest weight by Sumiko 800 is meant for the carts of

+/- 6 g. My assumption was that EPA 100 is not suitable for carts

above 9 g. There are hardly MM carts weighting more than 6 g.

 Your ZYX  is 5 g. As such a kind of an exception among the MC carts.

So there is no contradiction because your ZYX does not satisfy

the mentioned  condition of 9 g .

Dear jpjones 3318, I hate abbreviations for the simple reason that

I can't remember what they mean or refer to. What the hell is an SH-100G1?

Besides you are pretty late because I already sold both my EPA

100 (grin). I sold them because of the reasons mentioned. The

most of my MC carts were impossible to ''balance'' with EPA's

weight.

Dear chakster, Your ZYX together with ZYX Live 18 headshell

is heawier than 9 g. But even your ZYX with remarcable weight

of 7,9 g is not equal to 9 g.  BTW I deed not mentioned headshells

in my post.

Dear jpjones, If I knew about this ''added weight'' (SH 100 G1) I

would never sell my EPA 100,mk 2.