Help me understand compliance!

Believe it or not there once was a time I believed in all that same nonsense. It took years to understand what a waste of time it was learning all that stuff. Now I know to buy a good arm, and buy a good cartridge, and that in both cases "good" is determined entirely by how they sound. Could not even begin to tell you the mass, compliance, or any of that about my last two arms and last three cartridges. What I can tell you though is what really matters: they were medium output, .4mV to .7mV, which made them real easy to match up with a phono stage. 

So the one thing that I know matters, output, is the one thing you're not asking about. And the one thing you are asking about, compliance, is the one thing I know does not matter.

Situation normal.

Oh and if you want a good stylist, I recommend Gene Juarez.

You should take the above post with a grain of salt. Matching cartridge and tonearm should not be overlooked!
https://audiofi.net/2019/03/phono-cartridge-101/

Calculation work ONLY if you know dynamic compliance at 10Hz. 

If you cartridge is Japanese then compliance most likely stated at 100Hz in the manual (even if they do not mention 100Hz). In this situation you have to multiply this data on 1.7 at least (to convert it to 10Hz).

Stylus not stylist....oops. 

You should take the above post with a grain of salt. Matching cartridge and tonearm should not be overlooked!
https://audiofi.net/2019/03/phono-cartridge-101/

You should take the above post with a big grain of salt. The unimportance of compliance should be appreciated!   
https://www.originlive.com/cartridge-compliance-tonearm-effective-mass-cartridges-work-well-origin-l...