Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Frogman - yes, the collect phase is a kind of mechanical collection from the mower bag to curbside paper leaf bag, for town collection and composting.
The birch and maple leaves get mulched into my soil. No problem and feels good to be dropping them into it. But the late fallers....the Oak leaves ......take all winter to fall and are a real problem as they don’t seem to break down. A PITA. Mulching them is like trying to mulch Styrofoam.

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So when that auction I linked was in play - I got this email from someone asking about it and whether he should consider it. He was not a current or past owner of the ET2 tonearm. I told this person.

"Whether you should get the ET2 depends on your personality type. Let me use an analogy to explain.

Think back to the days when we used to drive our automobiles before GPS and Google Maps. So you are out on the road in an unknown area - a little lost - what do you do ?

Personality type A
would - open the glove box and pull out a hardcopy map; or stop and ask for directions.

Personality type B -
would - just prod onward blindly hoping they will reach their destination.

Type B should not own this tonearm IMO. "

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Great analogy!

Ordered two long I-beams yesterday; single and double spring versions.   What a nice man Bruce T is!  You may recall from early in the thread my description of my diy balsa wood version of a long I-beam.  Worked well, but always had trouble with reliably securing the leaf springs to it.  Will keep you all posted.

@ct0517 

I loved the analogy too.  

@frogman 

Congrats on the long I-beams. Let us know what you hear with them.

 The VDH Black Beauty SPX is not quite broken in yet but I'm becoming a huge VDH fan.  Right out of the box it had a luscious midrange without the lost detail I experienced with the MC-1.  The Black Beauty SPX is a large upgrade from the MC-1 Special.  

Put on the new long beam, and lose half the weight.
I wish real life was this easy. I run an hour a day and can barely stay at my weight.
Those evening liquid calories.... take a serious toll.

Hi everyone.  I've owned and ET II for about 28 years and have had my ups and downs.  I've posted in this forum but it's been years.  A quick background.  I'm in Greensboro NC, running the ET 2.5 on a modified VPI TNT Jr on a custom critical mass base with custom brass feet.  Direct wired. Carbon fiber arm. Jenna air pump in another room. Long I beam, currently double sprung, also have a long single sprung one.  Silicon damping.   I've recently switched out a Lyra Delos for a Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC.  I've had this setup sounding really good, and for a while the new Zephyr was spot on, more like listening to a master tape than an LP.  That being said, I switched out the Zephyr to re-assess the Delos and never got the Delos dialed in, and upon re-inserting the Zephyr I can't seem to get back to the sound I had previous.  For now I'm really just looking for information on one setup issue - Chris' information on using a feeler guage to set the 4 screws on the manifold.  I looked at his virtual system page and couldn't find the specifics.  Chris, if you read this, could you point me in the right direction?  PS,   I saw a post from a few years ago from vpi about getting the manifold level right. In may case Harry sent me a spacer that went under the armboard FWIW.