Audiotechnica OC9MLII High, Low or Med Compliance?


I'm interested in finding out whether the OC9MLII would be considered a low, med or high compliance cartridge. The spec sheet says:

Dynamic Compliance: 9 x 10-6cm/dyne
Static Compliance: 35 x 10-6cm/dyne

How would you interpret these figures?

Thanks!
dodgealum
From the Galen Carol Website:

A phono cartridge whose compliance is rated at 12 x l0ˉ6 or below, is considered low compliance. A cartridge whose compliance is rated between 13 x l0ˉ6 and 25 x l0ˉ6 is considered high to very high.

Note: Another way of expressing compliance is um/mN. Here a rating of 5 to 10 is considered very low, 10 to 20 is moderate and above 35 is very high.

Low mass arms mate well with both moderately high and very high compliance phono cartridges.

Moderate mass tonearms are good companions for moderate to low compliance cartridges.

If a low compliance cartridge is used with a low mass tonearm, undesirable resonances can occur in the audible range. Mistracking may also be a problem.

When a high compliance cartridge is mated with a moderate mass tonearm, resonances in the infrasonic range may occur in addition to some unwanted high frequency damping.
I've had good results hanging an OC9ml/1 on medium mass arms including a Linn Basik LVX, a Premier FT-3 and also a higher mass VPI JMW-12.
Audio Technica, like several other Japanese manufacturers, specify the dynamic compliance at 100HZ. As your link above suggests, of most interest is the compliance at resonance (around 10Hz) which will be somewhat higher.

For instance Denon state the compliance of the 103 is 5x10-6cm/dyne which seems quite low. However practical resonance tests suggest the compliance is closer to 10cm/dyne(10-6)around resonance. The graph of compliance vs frequency published in Denons manual confirms this.

I'd expect the dynamic compliance of the OC9 to be more like 16-18cm/dyne(10-6) at resonance (ie around 10Hz).

As far as I can tell, when the units are crunched out, 1µm/mN equals 1cm/dyne(10-6) - ie those two terms are interchangeable. I've also seem cm/dyne(10-6) expressed as CU.
Thanks all. Would it be accurate to conclude that the OC9MLII is a medium to high compliance based on the above?