Tonearm resonance


Always have had an issue with tonearm noise. I can't afford the the to spend a fortune on a turtable but I just love the sound of vinyl. I have an MMF 7.3 with the stock tonearm and ortofon bronze cartridge which I'm planning to upgrade to a Hana EL most likely. Anyway, I just saw Funk Firm decouplers online the other day and am curious as to whether it is effective or not. If anyone has had experience with it I would love to hear about it. Thanks

johnnybwood

I'm sorry, but I still don't know what you mean by tonearm noise.  Tonearm bearings can be noisy, but I would think only on a very cheap tonearm.  Anti-skate devices can introduce a source of vibration by several different mechanisms.  But otherwise, what you interpret as tonearm noise may be failure to properly dissipate energy put into the tonearm by the cartridge, particularly low compliance LOMC cartridges that can't dissipate their own energy efficiently due to lack of compliance. In that case, I would not take steps to isolate the cartridge from the headshell; you might make matters worse.  Wish I could hear what you are finding objectionable.  The Cartridge Man thingy and the Cartridge Enabler are controversial to say the least.  For me, a no-no. I want the cartridge to be as tightly coupled to the headshell as possible and for the headshell to be efficient at dissipating energy.

put same cartridge in 2 different arms and listen to highly modulated grooves… easy to hear difference… arms are not just about better bearing / geometry but also resonance dissipation, damping and conversion…. 

i am not in the enabler camp… trading slop for damping… but i can see why some people might find it attractive….

Before one goes down the route of adopting additional devices to insert between Headshell and Cart’, suggested when in use to be a means of Cartridge Isolation.

It will be best for the individual to decide how closely they want to follow the philosophy of Rigid Coupling between all Parts used to create the Vinyl Front End and how much slop they want to add as means of moving away from a Rigid Coupling.

My own experience has been the closer to I have been able to attain to the method of Rigid Coupling, the more impressed I have become with the Source being used to replay vinyl.

Adding a wonder part, can be great at fixing one very small engineering concern, and introduce a whole lot more engineering concerns, that were not present prior to the adopting the use of the part.

@yogiboy are you interested in Exchangeable Wands on TA’s produced presently or Vintage designs as well, where finding a spare wand may incur a period of time watching the market to get the spare item?

There are also wands that are exchangeable that also have exchangeable Headshells as well.

https://www.reed.lt/product/reed-5t-tonearm/