TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ?

Dear @mijostyn : " I assure you, none of my current cartridges mistrack any record I have played, "

All your today and past cartridges has that analog jitter and you can’t avoid it. That you just don’s accept it is only your attitude or " ignorance " because evidence are there.

Shure, Stanton, Pickering and the like knew about and thta’s why its cartridge stabilizers to help a little on that regards.

If you are happy with that analog jitter in your system it’s fine with me but that you post after post tell that you don’t have that problem is just something " stupid for say the least: the day is nigth as not the other way around.

Btw, what you don’t understand yet is that that specific regards has nothing to do with which tonearm which kind of tonearm are you using and if it’s good matched or not: THE ISSUE BELONGS TO THE CARTRIDGE/GROOVE /FRICTON riding.

Till you understand that you will stay in trouble.

"  You do not want to know what I think about Townsend. "

What you think about has no importance what has importance is that you can prove it that what Townshend and his surrouded external enginners measures and all the science behind them tha are facts. You have not facts and you know that I respect you but what you are posting in this specific regards is only you ignorance levels about because you don't belive that could happens then you never tested.

Now you are very shilled working with wooooood and mayvbe metal too and own all the necessary tools to make a tray and test in your system.

Your posts does not help you till you experience as first hand in your system. This is not about our believes, this is about reality and again it's not a tonearm issue.

R.

@mijostyn  : Cranfield Institute of Technology is whre everything were do it where Townshend was the manufacturer who was interested to go a head with.

His take was about the tonearm and overall developed " distortions " in TTs but through the time I learned about and my take is a little different and relationed to the cartridge groove ridding it self.

From the point of view of cartridge/tonearm perfect resonance frequency level you are rigth but thast is not my take.

Even that we can be out of that ideal resonance frequency level things happened and happens that goes against what we all learned about. The Ortofon MC 2000 real time measures under its review confirm that because its tonearm/resonance frequency was below 5hz and the reviewer can't detect any trouble with and was not any reviewer but an engineer/audiophile/music lover and proffesional reviewer.

R.

Dear @mijostyn ​@dogberry  and friends : Here what the gentlemans at Cranfield Institute of Technology found out about damping that Townshend decide to took and manufacture with a lot of success.

Same measures with and with out damping and they used a low viscosity at 10K when SME V use 60K and I already tested 100K, 300K and 600 in different ways. Mijos please do not makes a critic as is usual in you and try to enhance the dialogue with real solutions on this cartridge ridding subject that is what we all need. Critic is totally easy and any one can do it but real solutions that's a different history:

Raúl (canva.com)

R.

Thanks, Raul. I need to hear those differences rather than see them on paper to know if they are significant. And SME silicon is 60cS rather than 10, which I assume is a significant difference. I shall have to experiment some more, but it should wait until I finally move cartridges around on the tonearms so that they are in their final places (I'm being influenced by the idea, still, that the Decca will benefit the most from damping, if any of them do.)

Dear @dogberry  : Of course that you need to hear it.

I shared those measures only for we can see that damped vs undamped valuations.

They used 34 different cartridges as the Decca London Gold, Ortofon MC 30, Denon DL103D, Empire 2000, Goldring 900, Nakamichi MC 1000 ( I owned this and was a great performer. ), Shure V15, Sonus Silver and many more with different compliace/weigth, characteristics.

@mijostyn  I know that this gentleman has very good experience levels and very god knowledge levels and  I think that to post something that enhamce the subject dialogue he has to " open " a little his way of thinking.

R.