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VPI JMW9 Sig. Arm Tube Ringing. Any remedies?

The mere stylus/record contact during silent passages excites a ringing during playback and is especially audible playing loud cut records with heavy kick drum. It appears to originate from the tube while holding it at the fulcrum and tapping the arm tube with a fingernail. Has anyone found a remedy to effectively drain/mute this resonance without adding much mass to the arm? The effects of this are very annoying. Has anyone using a Benz Micro Ebony 3H or equivelent mass cart replaced the arm with something else and what was your results?
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storyboy
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This is from the VPI website, a comparison of the jmw9 arms:

INTERNAL DAMPING
1.7 POUND DENSITY FOAM
2.5 POUND DENSITY FOAM

Something else must be wrong, I would contact them.
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