Hello Fbhifi,
You will find the XV-1s to be extremely tolerant of varying mass tonearms. The week after the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, I had a small gathering at my place.
I still had an XV-1s owned by my "partner in crime" from Azzolina Audio. Frank Schöder and several others were over playing, and we put one XV-1s on my 18 gram Ebony wand Schröder Reference, and another on my Triplanar.
Both tonearms showed their basic characteristics, and at least on the two Galibier turntables, there was no sense of a compliance mismatch when using either tonearm.
Now, compliance matching is a tricky matter, and I hope to update my website toward this end. You can shift the resonant frequency from 11.2 Hz to 10.7 and effect huge changes. It's difficult to predict which one will be better.
With my unsuspended rigs, when situated on a concrete slab floor in my main room, I tend to find lower to be better - almost across the board. There are exceptions to this, however - most notably the Benz products. This is not a commentary on the overall goodness of one cartridge over the other, but merely a comment on the issues involved in getting the most bang for your buck.
If I were choosing based on mass alone, I'd shoot for the 12 gram range. This is only because you have more flexibility and are "future-proofing" your tonearm purchase against different cartridges. This is the advice I give to my Schröder customers when they are faced with the dizzying array of arm wand material (mass) choices.
Cheers,
You will find the XV-1s to be extremely tolerant of varying mass tonearms. The week after the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, I had a small gathering at my place.
I still had an XV-1s owned by my "partner in crime" from Azzolina Audio. Frank Schöder and several others were over playing, and we put one XV-1s on my 18 gram Ebony wand Schröder Reference, and another on my Triplanar.
Both tonearms showed their basic characteristics, and at least on the two Galibier turntables, there was no sense of a compliance mismatch when using either tonearm.
Now, compliance matching is a tricky matter, and I hope to update my website toward this end. You can shift the resonant frequency from 11.2 Hz to 10.7 and effect huge changes. It's difficult to predict which one will be better.
With my unsuspended rigs, when situated on a concrete slab floor in my main room, I tend to find lower to be better - almost across the board. There are exceptions to this, however - most notably the Benz products. This is not a commentary on the overall goodness of one cartridge over the other, but merely a comment on the issues involved in getting the most bang for your buck.
If I were choosing based on mass alone, I'd shoot for the 12 gram range. This is only because you have more flexibility and are "future-proofing" your tonearm purchase against different cartridges. This is the advice I give to my Schröder customers when they are faced with the dizzying array of arm wand material (mass) choices.
Cheers,