Every arm and cartridge pair forms a resonant system: the cartridge suspension is the spring, the arm and cartridge are the mass. Pick your arm and your cartridge from the lists and their figures come with them, so matching a pair does not start with hunting down your arm's effective mass. Enter the numbers by hand instead if yours are not listed.
Treat the result as a guide rather than a verdict. Published compliance figures are measured differently between makers, and suspensions drift with age. A pairing a little outside the band can still track well; the calculation tells you where to look if it doesn't.
A reference chart, fixed for the Clear Wave. It does not follow the arm and cartridge you pick above.
Every cartridge in our database that can be mounted on the Clear Wave, plotted against the target band. The wedge is the same shape whatever arm you own: the axis is the total mass at the stylus, so fitting a heavier arm slides the whole cloud to the right rather than moving the band.
56 of the 64 plotted here resonate between
8 and 12 Hz.
Bool Audio is a father and son making hi-fi components in a small UK workshop. We build the Clear Wave unipivot tonearm and the Clear Wave 2.0 tonearm cable, both for the Linn LP12. These calculators began as our own bench arithmetic. They are free to use, there is nothing to install, and they take no view on which cartridge or tonearm you should own.
