Tone arm resonance and cartridge compliance: How do they interact??

I read many years ago about the importance of tonearm resonance. How does that affect sound quality, and also cartridge compliance How do you determine tonearm /cartridge compatibility??

Thanks,

S.J.

sunnyjim08-15-2020 3:31am

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cleeds Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,074 posts 08-20-2020 at 06:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete br3098 Mass is best added distributed along the arm ... Perhaps ... ... but will have the most effect closest to the fulcrum. No, the opposite is the case. The further from the fulcrum, the greater the effect of the mass. The pickup arm works as a lever.
cleeds Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,074 posts 08-20-2020 at 06:06pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete mijostyn You can not control resonance with different mass counterweights because once the cartridge is balanced you wind up with the same effective mass regardless of counter weight mass. No, that is completely mistaken, and is one of the reasons many pickup arms offer counterweights of different weights. That’s because a factor in effective mass is the distance between the counterweight (actually, the counterweight’s center of mass) and the pickup arm pivot.

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