In article , Keith G
wrote:

"Bill Taylor" wrote


I recently changed my turntable. The only reasonably priced one that I
felt that I could trust was the Technics DJ turntable (basically a
1970s HiFi turntable with a speed control). The supplied arm has
quite a high effective mass and with the Shure V15-V that I had to buy
as well the LF resonance is plainly much to low, this cartridge has a
more reasonable compliance of about 23c.u., but it is still too high.
Forunately the Shure damper more or less controls the resonance.


I ran the same cart on a (presumably) similar deck - the Technics SL1210
Mk 2 - and found that the damping brush had virtually no effect on
sound quality.

That isn't particularly surprising. The main effect in practice would show
up on LPs with pronounced levels or warp or surface ripples. If the discs
are fairly flat, then the damper wouldn't be doing much.

FWIW I use my V15/III with an old technics TT/arm so the arm mass is 'too
high', but in general I don't hear any problems as a result, despite the LF
resonance being lower than nominally ideal.

Slainte,

Jim

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