Kuzma tonearm for DS Audio Cartridges

[thekong]

I have just acquired a DS Audio W3, to be matched with a phono developed by my friend. As such, I am interested to know if members have any success stories matching DS Audio cartridges, especially the W3, to the Kuzma line of tonearms, from 4Point to Airline to Safir!

I am interested to match the W3 with the Airline, but since DS doesn’t publish compliance figures, I am not sure whether the Airline would be too heavy for the W3.

Any comment would be appreciated! Thanks in advance

 

[Another Johnson]

It is very tedious to get through this review, but the reviewer says that the W-3 is “lowish” compliance.

“With a mass of 7.9gm and an unspecified but lowish compliance, it should work fine in most modern medium-mass tonearms. I installed the DS-W3 in the Brinkmann 12.1 tonearm, which has an effective mass of 14gm, on my Brinkmann La Grange turntable. The combination worked flawlessly.”

Just a reference point.

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