In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:21:09 +0100, "Geoff Mackenzie"
wrote:


Depends rather a lot on what arm you are using. For example, the SME
3009 and its variants worked well with MM, but were less successful
with MC which is why they fell from grace (sorry!) in the
seventies/eighties. Whereas the SME 4 and 5 were particularly suited
to MC. Mass compliance, and all that. Also depends on the quality of
your pre-amp, of course, and what it was designed for.

Mmmm? I have a MC cart (Audio Technica OC9) on a 3009ii and it all works
perfectly, both listening and in measurement.

Does the OC9 have a rather higher compliance (and perhaps more sensible
damping) than many MC designs? The root of the problem was that many MC
designs had/have booger-all compliance and no damping. So can be
problematic in an arm like the 3009 which has low mass.

Slainte,

Jim

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