High or low-mass record weights/clamps: which is best?

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I've got a much earlier version of this currently sat round mine and it ticks all the boxes for me. I've always been loathe to use the Kuzma weight/clamp. it just doesn't make any sense to me, a brand goes to all that trouble to manufacture the quietest bearing they can for a deck, then they go and spoil it by loading the bearing with several hundred grams of weight for a clamp- when its clamping force, not weight that is really needed.

Don't me started on after-market record weights, they are just the height of stupidity, especially as you can press the record down without adding a load of mass by other means.