Raul
If we have not that first new experience then we don’t know if it’s tru or it’s totally wrong. This is the subject here because no one is willing to try it.
That comment is a gross assumption that probably offends many people here and is pure conjecture. Most of the regular contributors here have been in audio for over 20 years and have considerable hands on experience to draw from.
In my case I have done precisely that. Removed both external tonearm damping and internal tonearm damping from many arms. The result in every case has been an improvement in clarity, transparency and speed.
In some cases there may be increased colourations due to the resonances in the undamped tube - but for me I prefer to take the increased clarity, transparency and speed and deal with any increased colourations by other means. As the importer for Sumiko many years ago, yes I have tried the Analogue Survival arm wrap that JCarr uses - it is a bandaid and does not cure the problem.
Raul if you read my post I said -
I do not like damping on tonearms as a general rule as it tends to suck life out of the sound and at worst smear the sound, particularly spongy or soft materials such as rubber, heat shrink, etc.
Note that I said "as a general rule" and "tends" - there are no absolutes in audio simply because as you have correctly pointed out there are many "distortions" or imperfections in all audio equipment.
Note that I also qualified the comment with "soft and lossy materials". There are many ways of damping motion or resonances without resorting to soft or lossy materials - examples are
Naim Aro - damping is effected by the bearing design, a radiused tip in a radius cup in the unipivot results in around 6db of damping - measured by Martin Colloms
Final Audio TT - uses bimetallic damping in the platter construction - copper and aluminium
Lyra Cartridges - use bimetallic damping and asymmetric profiles to minimise resonances within their cartridge structure
Final Audio TT uses a SPZ (superplastic zinc alloy) base to eliminate resonances between 10-100hz by molecular motion internally.
Black Diamond Racing carbon fibre products - use energy dissipation and profiles to remove resonances.
As regards your Dynavector Karat Nova 13D, it is incidental to the discussion on tonearms, but in my view it is no longer a Dynavector Karat Nova 13D as you claim in your ad if the cantilever is no longer a diamond cantilever of 1.3mm in length. Furthermore it is no longer original if it has been rebuilt. I took my photo of my original from side on - the same angle as your photo. The cantilever on your Dynavector Karat Nova 13D looks like an elephants trunk compared to the original. Furthermore if the cantilever is not original then the coils may also not be original. I would recommend you go back to the seller and lodge a claim as it appears that you have been mislead as to its provenance. Onselling a cartridge with misleading claims, when you hold yourself to be an expert, would leave you exposed to claims from potential purchasers.
