You’re extremist, lolExtremist?
The mass of Black Widow tonearm is less than 5g as far as i know.
I would never do that myself, i’d rather put a cartridge with compliance figure 4 times higher than 8cu. I think this arm designed for very high compliance cartridges (30-50cu)
But it’s good that we have you, so you can tell us more about your experiment to support halcro’s theory.
Lol, I resemble that remark!
But to put into proper context as I stated on the last go round on this matter.
The 103 was already mounted on the Black Widow on the Denon DD table when I bought it from eBay.
Like everyone I doubted the common sense of this and even messaged the seller as to why he did this. His reply was a lol and to try it before I knock it.
Fair enough so I did when it arrived and it was not as bad as everyone would think.
Now would it have been better, nay a lot better on a heavier arm?
Of course it would.
Would I recommend this pairing?
Of course not.
But that is missing the point somewhat.
It was wholly listenable too and if my memory serves me correctly it had a fairly decent presentation and bass, treble etc.
Did it stay on the arm long?
Nope, it was replaced by a vintage ADC XLM cart which is what I had bought just for the Black Widow.
BTW according to an old press release of the Black Widow they recommend carts in the weight range of 4g to 8.5g.
Now the 103r is right at 8.5g so not so much of an unholy alliance as made out to be.