"Keith Git is a Damn TROLL
"Don Pearce is a Prick "
How does the HF damping thing work? It seems to me that if you can
dissipate energy quickly enough for critical damping at HF, it will be
almost solid at the main LF resonance

The energy is dissipated in the tonearm, not the cartridge. See:


** KG simply does not read the context of the thread NOR the articles he
links.

http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/how...cartridge.html

The above is entirely about LF ( ie arm mass-cantilever suspension
compliance) resonance - in the range of 5Hz to 20Hz.

OTOH, cartridge HF mechanical resonance is a function of a cantilever's
stiffness and the mass ( ie magnet or coils) wobbling about at the opposite
end to the stylus.

Frequencies in the range from 10 kHz to 50 kHz are involved.

Anyone remember the massive spike in the response of the Decca London at 12
kHz ?

First class audiophool fodder that one:

" .... just listen to all that extra DETAIL ...... "

Allen Wright where are you ?


..... Phil