Quote Originally Posted by emaidel
...but just about everyone everywhere thought they "interfered with tracking," and all sorts of horrible things.
While I never took that approach, other folks were looking for ways to minimize mass for high compliance cartridges. Since I used an RCM and a genuinely low mass arm, I felt they were superfluous.

There is one on the Shure M97 I use on the SME today, but the arm's tracking does not support settings above 2 grams. Yes, I could drag out my little Transcriptors weight kit (still have since the Vestigal days) and bias the counterweight, but I'm still not enthusiastic about dragging around a little bolus of dust.

rw