The invention relates to a desity measuring device which is used to measure a density, rho, of a flowable medium and comprises measuring device
electronics (ME) and a measuring
transducer (MW) electrically connected to the measuring device
electronics. The measuring
transducer comprises a measuring tube (10), a
vibration exciter (41) for exciting and maintaining vibrations, and a
vibration sensor (51) for sensing vibrations of the at least one measuring tube. The measuring device
electronics are designed to adjust, by means of a
vibration measurement signal (s1) and an
exciter signal (e1), a driving force that causes useful vibrations, namely vibrations having a specified useful frequency, fN, of the measuring tube, in such a way that a phase shaft angle, phi N, by which a
velocity response, VN, of the measuring tube is phase shafted with respect to a useful force component, FN, of the driving force is less than -20 and greater than -80 degrees during a specified
phase control interval, and / or the useful frequency has a frequency value that is more than 1.00001 times but less than 1.001 times a frequency value of an instantaneous
resonance frequency of the measuring tube. Furthermore, the measuring device electronics are designed both to determine at least one frequency measured value, xf, representing the useful frequency for said
phase control interval on the basis of the
vibration measurement signal (s1) present during the
phase control interval and to generate a density measured value, x rho, representing the density, rho, by using the frequency measured value, xf.