Tonearm resonance

Furshur not a lot of fans of the bronze but still a step up from what I had. I believe also an Ortophon OM2. Was considering a Hana EL. Just bought a pair of Rel s510 subs and one of my amps lost a channel right after so I’m a bit spent out for the moment. As soon as I get my wind back from that I will be diving into turntable issues whole hog! Will need a laundry list of alignment tools for that venture. Cheers 

Okay.  Do yourself a favor and lose that table. If you've the means to buy those subs, you can step it up from that MMF. 

HAD money for subs! I love vinyl but it’s not the only source I listen to. Certainly tweaking what I have is a worth while effort and a means to leapfrog to something better down the road. Any thing I do now could be applied there including cartridge, isolation (like the Funk) and alignment tools.Yes, a VPI or Linn is a worthwhile upgrade but for now I have to work with what I’ve got. All part of the joy!  
 I will be playing with isolation techniques in the meantime and reporting back to this thread with any noteworthy findings in the future.

Cheers

where is @mijostyn when you need him?

@sokogear  Right here scratching my head.

@johnnybwood The only thing you will here with a tonearm cartridge mismatch is feedback (if the arm is too light) and only under some circumstances. What you are looking for is a quieter tracking cartridge and the Hana is not it. Other sources of noise include your phono stage which should be obvious when you turn the volume up. You NEVER put anything between cartridge and the tonearm except maybe a solid shim. The cartridge has to be rigidly oriented to the turntable.  If the resonance frequency is too high you add weight in the form of heavier screws or longer screws with washers. Soundsmith makes a nice set of graded cartridge screws. 

If you are looking for a quieter cartridge you need a more advanced stylus profile, but these are usually in more expensive cartridges. Ortofon's Replicant 100 stylus is a very quiet tracker if set up carefully. Grado cartridges have been said to be quiet. The Soundsmith OLC in the Voice is almost as quiet as the Replicant 100. The Gyger S is as quiet as the Soundsmith OLC. The Grado 1042 is a very reasonably priced cartridge with the Gyger S. Clearaudio uses the Gyger in the Charisma and some of it's moving coils. Van den Hul probably uses the Gyger in some of it's cartridges as Van den Hul designed it. 

Lastly, if your records have been played with a bad stylus or not kept clean and static free the result will be increased background noise. You may want to take some of your records to a store with a decent turntable set up and see how they sound.