Tonearm resonance

I would buy a TT with the option of mounting your own arm, preferably the option to add a second arm.

A good used one gives you buying options and saves money or gets you more for your budget.

Original arm could be S arm with changeable head-shell for alternate head-shell/cartridges (one might be MM/MC/Mono), or an arm that has optional arm wands, like VPI Unipivot ..... Technics bpa-500 base alternate arms.

Any members know of other arms with changeable arm wands _______?

No risk except shipping cost to try Funk's Houdini

"Funk says “Decouple”, that's why Houdini was developed! This patented little device blocks those damaging arm vibrations and Immediately your sound improves…a lot! It’s as simple as that."

"Just try it and hear, especially on your modest deck. (You’ll get your money back if you disagree…only, you won’t!)"

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I recall a thread about a thin layer of soft damping material between the head-shell and cartridge that solves/prevents vibration/resonance, some highly recommend it.

I seem to remember it costs a lot less than the funk one you mentioned.

anyone know what is is _______ ?

noromance, good solution

Origin Cartridge Enabler

they mention other solutions

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Cartridge isolation works

The idea of decoupling the cartridge from the tonearm is not entirely new. The Cartridge Man isolator does this successfully for many arms.

Another alternative promoted by Dynavector importer Pear Audio suggested 3 plastic washers placed between a cartridge body and headshell - this also worked effectively."

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Cartridge Man

the text/his test results are worth reading if considering this

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back to Origin:

The key advantages of the Cartridge floater are:

It sounds brilliant

It’s easy to fit

Low cost at £19 (performance improvement can be valued at over 10 times this figure)

It works with all cartridges (from £35 budget up to £8000 high end cartridges)Provides the ability to slightly adjust azimuth on tonearms which have no such adjustment."

are these issues always present on your support system? It is possible a combo of solidity and anti-vibration is needed.

my final solution was adding isolation blocks between my heavy turntable and very stable equipment rack

I was dealing with springy wood floor over a crawl space, not cartridge/arm issues.

ps, I wrapped those isolation blocks with black tape, don't even see them now.