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Shelter and Triplanar matching ?

HELLO

I have problems to match a shelter 901 with a tri planar VII.

Lot of records ( above all piano LP ) are playing tremulous and I can see the tonearm CLEARLY SHAKING on the record while playing it as if it could be a problem of resonance between the cartridge and the tonearm .

I have seen here and there that the Shelter was a LOW COMPLIANCE cartridge (I don't know the exact value).Its weight is 9,5 g.

I have choosed the maxi VTF : 2 g.


I am afraid that the TP is too light for the shelter.Its effective mass is 11 g,
Is it enough for the Shelter 901 ?

I am surprised because the Shelter 901 / Tri Planar seemed to be a combination used buy some audiophiles...without modification .

Could someone give me some help...

Thank you

Tenmus
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rauliruegas
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Dear Doug: Maybe I miss something.

+++++ " For me, this A/B/C comparison settled any argument about HO vs. LO MC's. " +++++

What do you mean with that statement? in reference to what?. Please explain about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
dougdeacon
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Raul,

I'm not saying any HOMC will be worse than any LOMC. That would be silly, comparing apples and oranges. But given the same manufacturer and model, the HO version will tend to be less accurate and less dynamic than the LO version. That's all.

Now if I could just learn to puke while swimming in a tuxedo...
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swampwalker
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Now that is not a pretty picture at bedtime!
tenmus OP
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it should be still worse if Doug had puked in Raul's ferrari while scaling the Everest..
jtimothya
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Doug: "Extra mass on the cantilever means reduced transient speed and rolled off waveforms."

That seems like a reasonable explanation. I see where the ZYX Web site cites both silver and copper with the same coil wire diameter (.035mm) and same weight (5.0gm).

If both cartridges weigh the same and have the same wire diameter, maybe its not extra mass on the silver's cantilever that accounts for the sonic differences. Maybe its fewer windings of the heavier metal. (??)

Could a different number of windings between silver and copper yield different signals?

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