Good way to dampen tonearm?

Some shrink tubing has glue on the inside that is activated by the heat. If you try that make sure you get the kind without glue. It would also be hard to cut off without scratching the arm.

So anyone hears improvement after damping the arms with Teflon tapes or shrink tubing? I know it varies with arm/cartridge, but want to get some statistic from experienced listeners.

It's common for speaker manufactures to damp their drivers, same goes for circuit designers in amplification. Why don't we see more arm tubes with damping materials coming from factories? I have owned SME, Graham, and VPI, none of them have damping on the arm tube. Is it because it's not critical and job of arm tube is to hang the cartridge in place while it reads off the LP? Otherwise, I will expect someone to build an arm from wood or some carbon matrix.

Someone please enlightens me.

ACTUALLY..."damp" and "dampen" are BOTH verbs and can BOTH be used to describe the deadening of a tonearm. Isn't English a wonderfully simple language?

FWIW...I've had decent luck with plain shrink wrap tubing on tonearms. Very easily removed.

Marigo VTS tuning dots are one possibility, amusicdirect.com also has a tonearm wrap,perhaps what Vanderstephan is talking about.

Ralph Karsten at Atma-Sphere (www.atma-sphere.com) sells a high quality tone arm wrap that may interest you. Check it out, Ralph can give you more information. Happy Listening