Same Old DD
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I have used both. My old Thorens had a threaded spindle and it was easy to use a clamp. It had been modified. My favorite table is forty years old as one mentioned above and if it was easy to add a clamp, I would prefer that method of stability, but with that table I just use a light weight out of mainly convenience.
I also do not notice a lot of difference with or without the weight, unless I am playing something with heavy bass content OR a classical piece with very quiet passages at times. I'm not sure how adding the weight improves a typical album, but I feel it is like additional mass, up to the point of dimishing returns, just seems to stabilize some moving things.
I have noticed that when using the weight on some bass heavy music albums, the close proximity of speakers to cartridge/tonearm tends to feedback at super low frequencies considerably less than if I skipped the weight, altogether.
I know my speakers can not reproduce these tones (I would consider them as distortion) and I can not hear the tones with just my ears, BUT, I can certainly hear in the music the ill effect of the ULF beginning to create a tone loop of feedback, if that begins to happen through excess volume during playback. I have a very heavy sand box I made to isolate the table (old school trick) from these frequencies and it works well, handles most of the interference, and the weight on the vinyl takes the isolation from ULF one step further.
In other words, I can get my system much louder with my bass heavy metal albums with the weight on before any perceptible interference occurs.
I know most do not worry about some of this, but a few of us still have a wild head banger vein throbbing at times for me to drop the reins and let it buck!
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