Since I only have the one acoustic player, I can't say for all designs. But my Victrola has a weight already attached, and a pretty heavy one at that, so I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing. As is you have to tilt the needle down into place gently or it will tip and slam the needle into the record pretty hard (hard enough to put a nice puncture wound into a finger as I learned from experiece). Although, I know of people doing that with arms for newer analog turntables. But then in every case it was either because the person had a REALLY cheap one, or they didn't realize that there was a counterweight on the back of the arm already (I've seen a few where the weight is under the plastic cover to the arm, so it isn't obvious its there... my Rockola jukebox is like that) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>