High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference?

Pretty sure the analogy doesn't extend to Sumo wrestlers.

I’ve owned over a hundred tables just cause I like to play with them .
Most expensive was a Linn 3k job .
I tried to figure out what was best but I got so tied up in music I forget to take notes .
All I know was Sansui 929 was the most beautiful one and the one I wish I still had and for that reason .

The only absolute Is God .

Heavy platter turntables virtually always produce lower w&f and drift. The tend to produce what I would call an "elegant" or graceful sound. They also tend to have a lower noise floor. You know it when you hear it. It is a myth that they sound slow and it has absolutely nothing to do with energy storage. The bearing is the usual culprit in "slow" sounding systems. Did any of you stop by at Axpona?
Regards,
Bruce
Anvil Turntables

I have a better idea. How about getting a Well Tempered table and not worry about resonance? No vibrations will get through the cup of goo the arm sits in. Oh, BTW, no bearings in the arm either. 

@10timps - I had one of the original Well-Tempered turntables many years ago. It had been upgraded and tweaked considerably and was a terrific table for the money. The design, these many years later, is still quite ingenious. The difference I have experienced between that table and other higher mass tables that eventually replaced it was less of the sense of a turntable going around--I refer to it as a "halo" that is simply absent now. And bass performance is considerably better, even though I am using a linear arm, which is not the last word in deep bass delivery. There are, of course, trade-offs to the high mass approach, isolation being one of them, but such trade-offs exist with pretty much everything.