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Seeking high quality lightweight head shells

In order to achieve the best performance from a cartridge, TT, arm and head shell all play an important role. I recently purchased the Sound Smith Ebony Voice MI cartridge. I'm planning to mount it on an SME 3012R tone arm. I understand given the cartridge parameters and its nominal 1 gram tracking, I need a good lightweight head shell. Can anyone direct me to a site or otherwise good source for a premium head shell? BTW, the cart is a medium compliance type. Your guidance is much appreciated.
frontier1
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rauliruegas
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Dear Frontier1: Through ebay you can find from high quality and in the weight range you want it:

http://electronics.shop.ebay.com/Cartridges-Needles-/64620/i.html?_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
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Dear Frontierl: Btw, IMHO you can use any headshell weight where the cartridge makes the best match ( of course that the tonearm can handle the headshell weight. ), don't worry about the resonant frequency between tonearm/cartridge, that resonant frequency value can't tell you anything about the quality performance of that cartridge/tonearm combination.

If you have time please read this:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1200430667&openflup&1612&4#1612

Btw, Johnnyb53, you can find from Denon a 5grs headshell and from Audio Technica a 6 grs. headshell too.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
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rauliruegas
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http://electronics.shop.ebay.com/Cartridges-Needles-/64620/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A10%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1&_catref=1&_ipg=200&_sc=1&_sop=10&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#item27af981a1c

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.
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