Tonearm/cartridge weight considerations

Welcome to A'gon! Someone may pop up with some direct answers, but you can probably find them by doing a search. You want to look for references to effective mass, compliance, and tonearm resonance. These topics have been covered extensively here.

Best,

Dan

Thank you for reply. I did some Audiogon archive search, however here in Audiogon most of the relevant topics are about specific arms and specific cartridges whereas my question was more general, perhaps even more theoretical. What I am looking for are general considerations for combining a cartridge with an arm. I do not care much about question "what cartridge is the best for SME V" or anything like that. I do no believe in "the best for all times" because there can be many combinations with different results, many of them good. My worries are not to make some stupid things while experimenting and searching. Did not find much information on this one. However, while doing the search I found a good reference to Van Den Hul homepage where they have quite extensive FAQ in phono section. Some useful information can be found there at least to start with.

Read this link.

Actually you are trying to match the effective mass(different from weight) of the tonearm and compliance of the cartridge. You've chosen a very easy to match cartridge in the Shure, being a medium compliance piece. Look at this page for more insights-(http://www.theanalogdept.com/cartridge___arm_matching.htm).

I would consider the Shure a high not medium compliance cartridge.

At 25 it is far above what generally is accepted medium i.e. 12-17.