Record’s physical design properties


Can someone describe or point me to a document that describes the physical properties of records in terms of the shape of the grooves and how the shape, weight, or the overall design of a cartridge affects the sound and in particular the bass and treble response. Visually speaking, in some songs the grooves are tighter and deeper and in others they are further apart and appear shallower and these differences definitely sound different. Just very curious.
 Thanks in advance.
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Showing 1 response by lewm

Not only what tketcham wrote, but also keep in mind that moving the CW also changes tonearm effective mass, which can have an effect on bass response if the resonant frequency is near to being too high in the first place.  (The position of the CW with respect to the pivot affects effective mass according to the square of the distance between the center of mass of the CW and the pivot point.)  So, a little movement of the CW can have a large effect.  I am curious; what motivated you to arbitrarily move the CW (presumably toward the pivot which would increase VTF)?