Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners



Where are you? What mods have you done ?

I have been using these ET2's for over 9 years now.
I am still figuring them out and learning from them. They can be modified in so many ways. Bruce Thigpen laid down the GENIUS behind this tonearm over 20 years ago. Some of you have owned them for over 20 years !

Tell us your secrets.

New owners – what questions do you have ?

We may even be able to coax Bruce to post here. :^)

There are so many modifications that can be done.

Dressing of the wire with this arm is critical to get optimum sonics along with proper counterweight setup.

Let me start it off.

Please tell us what you have found to be the best wire for the ET-2 tonearm ? One that is pliable/doesn’t crink or curl. Whats the best way of dressing it so it doesn’t impact the arm. Through the spindle - Over the manifold - Below manifold ? What have you come up with ?
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Here's the website:

www.aircomparts.com

Click on filters, may be the need to follow again.

If you Google 'compressed air toilet paper filters', you can follow links to user forums.

My test is as I descibed earier, by using the disposable dessicant filters vs this one. Maybe not scientific but I'll stand by my 'end user' method.
Slaw - fwiw - the 3 spikes on the base of the ET2 are stainless steel 10-32 cone point set screws available from any supplier. An excellent suggestion I thought from Dover to just file them down to use naked with acrylic or any other material you don’t want to mar. Ordering a few gives you options with a few different armboards.

Nandric
Try to 'isolate' your wife

Well Nikola - I am a little confused. Since Serbians according to you are known as natural born warriors, I dare not ask what the Serbian way is to isolate your wife.
I am curious though how it is done in your Netherlands.
I have taken what I consider the sub optimal way of dealing with this problem – much like a sub sonic filter, I turn on my own filter. I realize this is just a bandaid and does not solve the problem, just like a sub sonic filter.
Slaw, I braided (twisted) the wires in pairs; red/green, white/blue. I would not braid all four.
Dear Chris, The Serbian worriors already own or can buy an Kalashnikov for about $200. Those can be used for, uh, the radical 'isolation'. But the custom is to return the wife to her mother if not satisfy with, say,her cook capability.
As the passionate worriors the Serbians never missed any of the Balkans wars nor do they need any reason to start one (aka 'pure passion'). The result is an huge shortage
of young man while everybody like to have grandkids. So to get a son in law is a very difficult proposition. The logical or even more practical consequence is to offer dowry and other 'convenient' conditions to 'seduce' a young man to marry your daugther. One of those is of course the 'return warranty'. You can imagine the problems by parents with more than one daugther. So the Serbians also have the China paradox but much smaller qua extension. As you of course know no Chinese wants a daugther. Because of this fact the number of the Chinese population is not only a paradox but also an enigma.
But the Serbian case is more a look alike with the Spartan case. At some point in time just one worrior is left over.
My advice to you? You can ask her mother first if she still loves her daugther and than ask the right question.

Regards,


Dover's suggestion was a very good one that I failed to acknowledge. I appreciate all of the info I'm getting here.