Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Boy.... tough crowd .... do you agree Dover ?

John47/Frogman - I always seem to have good luck fishing when the lure has a chartreuse color scheme to it.
So I am thinking of getting a chartreuse colored wrench...that is unless Dover advises differently.

Probably be easier to find it when I drop it in the carpet as well. Maybe it will fall next to the loose leaf spring I have been looking for. (Forum readers that have never owned an ET2 and not paying attention here are now heard muttering - what is a loose leaf spring ? )

Frogman - thx for the link. I am a little disappointed that PB Swiss Tools doesn't offer an Audiophile "Woodie" version made from the hardest and densest wood. A Woodie wrench would have (past tense) made a great Christmas gift match to an audio friend who recently tried his ET2 with what he calls the

"ET2 Chopstick I Beam Mod"

If he sees this I dare him to post a pic here.

Who knows ...it might make it into the Annual 2015 ET2 Audiophile W(rap)

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Chris, google isn't as good as it used to be: it hasn't brought up a chartreuse key with a dayglo (bright) label attached to the short end reading ... HOLD HERE.

I certainly hope so Frogman :^)

His results were fascinating but predictable, and showed when it comes to this analog vinyl hobby much can be figured out. Since its all mechanical, vibrations, resonances, electrical. There is no hokus pokus going on.

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And I say the above as a career IT guy......

My understanding (without giving away his observations) is he substituted the chopstick but kept the single leaf spring and the inert lead weights.
As we know the leaf spring is like a tuning fork designed to resonate. And when used as a single, double, triple leaf spring can be matched up to a resonating cantilever, much like a musician tunes up his instrument. I am more assuming here as I was a trombone guy - and the only valve was for body fluid from my personal distillery (thank u Pagasus !) My tuning was done with my lips. So maybe Frogman, Pegasus, ....can elaborate on the tuning instrument aspect better.

As with a tuning fork - a thicker stiffer one (ET2 double/triple leaf spring) will resonate higher than a thinner one - ET2 single leaf spring)

Anyway imagine what happens to the music when you add in something that is porous and absorbs much more so than the stock I beam itself.

Quiz question:

What leaf spring would work best with a stiff cantilever from an MC cartridge ?

(Hint you want to match the cantilever up to the resonating I Beam)

As the Canadian dollar continues is crumble against the American dollar - I am now willing to bet 115 instead of 100 Canadian loonies that no professional reviewer in the history of the ET2 ever figured out the above.

it hasn't brought up a chartreuse key with a dayglo (bright) label attached to the short end reading

my secret weapon

When used as the sun is just cresting the hill top, on its way down; guaranteed to attract those fish, like an audiophile at the Audio Show where they are presenting the latest and greatest power cord. :^)