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In the Thread: The Shelter 90X: mystery or mastery
Post Subject: No one knows anything.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/4/2008
I am absolutely sure that running a cartridge with elective effective mass shell theoretically shorten the live of cartridge as higher mass creates higher moment of inertia and harder stress the cantilever. How effective this theory on practice I have no idea as I do not know if anybody even consider moderating the strength of the cantilever suspension with targeted effective mass. Yes, the needle compliance, yes the adding the mass changes compliance (even do not changes resonance a lot). So, what? How it all affect the result that I am getting. Hypothetically it might be some kind of suspension wearing BEFORE the needle got warn. If it is so then there is no know to me ways to say anything objectively about the state of this cartridge.
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