Cartridge ISOLATION; What Say You?

Dear @tomwh  :  "   has shown me most people have not had enough exposure and or interest in what real music sound like to even begin to evaluate a system.  "

But other people like you, me and some other gentlemans in this thread and out there have enough exposure to live MUSIC and know what is down there for sure in their systems and for some of us our main target or system premise is to stay truer or nearer to the recording.

""    So even if that is not what real music sounds like who cares. If it makes you happy thats all that matters.  ""

Obviously it does not matters to you but there are MUSIC lovers/audiophiles that care about. 

The "cancer " in the jigh-end world and through the audio high end room/system audiophiles is something similar to what you posted with the expression: " I like it..." Who cares " I like it "

Mijostyn has a good point here to start a dialogue in the issue, we can agree or not with graphs or not.
 Which is your point here other that what you already posted. Is there something additional or that's it? or like you posted:

""  Just wild ass guesses posing as the truth...""

With and with out graphs there is something name it common sense that we all have in some different degrees levels and that are full of what we experienced through our audio/MUSIC life. Yes, your common sense as mine is specific and singular to each one of us. 


Regards and enjoy the MUSIC  NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

If I’m were not planning to use multiple cartridges; I’d melt a few dabs of a low-melting point solder like Tix into the head shell to tobrsrm joint; or locktite it. 

^^ tonearm joint 

@atmasphere,

MCs point on transmitting vibration from the cartridge body to the tonearm is seminal. The design of The Cartridgeman‘s Insulator is precisely addressing that issue while avoiding your concern of cartridge displacement by choosing a polymer too stiff to be displaced by the cantilever, which displacement -as you point out yourself- is magnitudes smaller than the former. On my system (Zyx Universe, Dynavector DV 507MkII) the benefit is so obvious, that I can only recommend that people try it rather than defer to principle based pontification.

The design of The Cartridgeman‘s Insulator is precisely addressing that issue while avoiding your concern of cartridge displacement by choosing a polymer too stiff to be displaced by the cantilever, which displacement -as you point out yourself- is magnitudes smaller than the former. On my system (Zyx Universe, Dynavector DV 507MkII) the benefit is so obvious, that I can only recommend that people try it rather than defer to principle based pontification.

If the cartridge transmits vibration to the arm, the arm hasn't done its job properly. But its a simple fact that no arm is perfect in this regard. So what really becomes the question is whether the arm tube should be damped to absorb such vibration or whether you want to decouple the cartridge from the arm in trying to do the same thing?


From an engineering perspective damping the arm tube seems the more elegant approach. But this is by no means universal so you may well perceive a difference (hopefully better). I alluded to this earlier.