Two linked questions here. Bear in mind that my tonearm has two or more counterweights which allows flexibility on positioning when balancing the arm.
1) presumably a tonearm’s effective mass is calculated without counterweight. Once adding the counterweight, does the effective mass of the arm vary depending on position of the counterweight?
2) Accepted wisdom is to try and keep counterweight as close to the pivot as possible, do you agree and does this effectively increase the arms effective mass?
3 - and most likely - Am I confusing two completely separate things?!
1) presumably a tonearm’s effective mass is calculated without counterweight. Once adding the counterweight, does the effective mass of the arm vary depending on position of the counterweight?
2) Accepted wisdom is to try and keep counterweight as close to the pivot as possible, do you agree and does this effectively increase the arms effective mass?
3 - and most likely - Am I confusing two completely separate things?!