Now, let us consider two quite different designs that appear to fall into the high mass, low mass camps but actually exist in neither (fully).
The Nottingham Analogue Dais appears to be a high mass deck. Indeed, it has no suspension and a high mass platter. However, whilst it does have a high mass platter (and a low torque motor which effectively increases the rotational moment of the platter within the context of the drive system), it also has a surprisingly low mass chassis (the component linking the arm to the platter - not the base that the whole deck sits on).
On the other hand, the Voyd has a low mass platter but it is driven by three very high torque motors (the Reference at any rate) -this effectively imbues the Voyd platter with the inertia of a hugely heavier platter, without actually having increased mass. At the same time it uses a relatively low mass chassis, but no lower in mass than that used by the Dais (made from entirely different materials though).
In short, generalisations are fun, but rarely accurate
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