Vinyl Asylum: RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm by Audio Fan

Vinyl Asylum: RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm by Audio Fan

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RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm

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In Reply to: RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm posted by charlies824 on October 9, 2007 at 10:56:32:

> > I'll report back my findings. I expect the resonance frequency to be ~14 hz.

Although I'll be interested to hear your results, that doesn't address my point. I don't believe your arm has a removable headshell, but let's pretend for a minute that it does. If you had ordered an AT33 Reference instead of a Prestige, you would have received the matching headshell, which weighs 23 or 27g mounted. If you used the matching AT headshell, your 5g arm would have an effective masss of about 25 or 30g. Yet in the Vinyl Asylum, the common advice is not to use an AT33 in a medium or high mass arm. My point is, obviously Audio Technica does not agree that the AT33's need a low mass arm.

I can only speculate that they value structural integrity more highly than they value low mass and a resonance in the theoretically ideal range.

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Topic - For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - Audio Fan 10:03:51 10/9/07 ( 12)

RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - charlies824 10:56:32 10/9/07 ( 11)
- RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - John Elison 13:47:24 10/9/07 ( 9)
  - RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - charlies824 14:28:28 10/9/07 ( 1)
    - You were right: lateral resonance freq = 10 Hz nt - charlies824 13:04:08 10/11/07 ( 0)
  - RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - Audio Fan 13:51:14 10/9/07 ( 6)
    - RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - John Elison 17:35:36 10/9/07 ( 2)
      - RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - Audio Fan 04:50:59 10/10/07 ( 1)
        
        RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - John Elison 06:36:58 10/10/07 ( 0)
    - it is probably what they have overstock on and - mattjk 14:58:48 10/9/07 ( 2)
      - RE: it is probably what they have overstock on and - Audio Fan 16:01:38 10/9/07 ( 1)
        
        of course, how many tables out there can actually - mattjk 16:20:45 10/9/07 ( 0)
- RE: For anyone who thinks the AT33PTG needs a light arm - Audio Fan 10/9/07 12:22:20 10/9/07 ( 0)