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I know, the contemporary manufactures and your favorite audio publication’s fiction writers would suggest you opposite. But  the words have no weight if they are not justified by the actual results. Visit the actual listening rooms of any person who use light arms and listen his/her analog setup. Regardless of the needle, TTs and the phonocorrectors all of them, again: ALL OF THEM, have a farty upper bass that is not connecter to the rest of the music.  Their "light tonearms sound" is good enough to listen the "complexity" of the Klezmer bands but if you play with those tonearms something more serious, for instance the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1940s, then you instantaneously recognize that the light tonearms are not acceptable for music.

So, what to do?   Load the headshells with mass. The typical contemporary tonearms with effective mass or 10g-14g should se the headshells of approximately of 30g-35g. If the contemporary MC cartridges are 8-12g then you have an idea how much you should load mass into your headshells. Try to distribute the added mass equally across the shell (right/left) and do not make the added mass ringy. I personally use silicone filling and if necessary implant into the silicon the lead shots.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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