[Dick Pierce[_2_]]

Audio Empire wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:06:44 -0700, Arny Krueger wrote
(in article ):
Correct. The shortest distance between the pivot and the stylus is always a
straight line. Therefore the straight tube with the cartridge mounted at an
appropriate offset angle and overhang distance is the most likely to have
minimal mass, all other things being equal.

Again with the mythology that low-mass in a tone arm is always desirable. It
is NOT. Low mass and low compliance does not work just as high-mass and high
compliance don't work.

Fine, add mass to a low mass tone arm.

What's the problem?

Mass in an arm is, in no way, and indicator of an
arm's quality just as compliance in a cartridge is no measure of a
cartridge's quality. To say that these are indicators of quality or
performance (in and of themselves) is akin to asserting that a
high-efficiency speaker performs better than a low efficiency speaker and for
pretty much similar reasons.

No, mass IS an indicator of the RANGE of suitable compliances.

A low mass arm can be auitably and satsifactorily adapted
to a much wider range of cartridge compliances than a high-
mass arm.

With a high-mass arm, you are stuck with using low compliance
cartridges. You can't use high-compliance cartridges to
achieve reasonable performance.

With a low mass arm, you can use cartridges ranging from
low compliance to high compliance simply through the use
of appropriate additional mass.

What's the problem?

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