Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

****I recently purchased a double leaf spring I-beam, re-read the manual and my (2) counterweights are now at the end of the I-beam. To my surprise, performing the cart in the groove test now results in NO rumble. Hallelulia! **** -Slaw

Hah!

Frogman. Is your "Hah"! a good thing or not so good thing.

I still think that my new motor enclosure design will help.
I also realize that this fix may be somewhat a 'bandaid fix' towards other potential issues. In any case, I'm enjoying the problem being gone for now.

Slaw, sorry I wasn't clear. My Hah! is definitely a good thing! It was an exclamation intended to be an acknowledgment of and agreement with your findings. It was also a bit of a pat on the back (my own back, and hopefully not too arrogant on my part) since I pointed out the benefits of the double-leaf spring and of moving the weight as far out on the I-beam as possible a while back.

I am very glad that you were able to solve the rumble problem. Like you I have my table on a non-load-bearing wall shelf. I used to have it on a rack and had terrible issues because of springy floor. While the move to the wall shelf solved some problems it created others. I constructed a multiple-layer constrained-layer platform that the table sits on on the shelf and it works very well. Overall, it is a better solution than on the rack.

BTW, I love your idea of using a common or agreeable LP as a reference to discuss our findings with out ET2/cartridge set-ups.

Regards.

Chris, my Acutex 420 STR has continued to improve and after a couple of months of exclusive use it seems to be settling at a point where the only harshness heard is harshness that occurs naturally in music. I think this has got to be one of the greatest bargains in my experience. I am not prepared to say that it bests my Empire 4000DiiiGold in every respect, but while the Empire (in my set-up) tends to gloss over some of music's natural aggressiveness and nasties, the Acutex doesn't err nearly as much in the direction of being overly aggressive up top. It is also more natural in the dynamics dept. It is sounding very very good on the ET.

Frogman: As you can see, I still haven't read through all of the postings since I left a while back. However, It's a very positive thing for me to put myself 'out-there' in this way and have someone with your experience with these issues comfirm my own findings. And as you all are aware... I kind of wear my heart on my sleeve, so this was a nice confirmation of my findings that are usually, well, almost always found in a setting of me and my system, no other influences. Thanks!