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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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nandric
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Dear Dgarretson,If you called my 'assumption' the false 'authority consensus' I would agree. We are supposed to share information we have but this does not mean that we
checked everything in the sense of the truth value. I thought that the opinion of the mentioned desiger may be relevant info but my primary intention was to mention this
cheap and available alternative (M 312) for the 420 which is obviously difficult to get. My 'horses' are elswhere btw.

Regards,
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slaw
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It seems we may be getting into symantics,?

Read between the lines......

My message has been, 'focus on the music'. Why do we need to discuss varionses between this or that component... at this stage... the most important thing is the music. May be, we should be discussing how many times we seach out new music?

Myself, I'm spending $300.00 + per month on LPs!

Yeah, that sounds right?!
gnnett
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Picked up two of the medo pumps and pleased to see they are 50/60Hz, so proposing to run them in parallel off a step down transformer, as our mains supply is 230v. There was a suggestion to run two pumps out of phase with each other. What should I do with the earth wires, or should I leave them unconnected?
Any other advice for using these pumps greatly appreciated.
Regards
Grant
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ct0517 OP
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Hi Grant – welcome to the thread. Another New Zealander. I wish I was there right now.

With both Mark and yourself discussing Medo’s I dug out my medo ac0110 pumps from the past today and hooked them up separately and together to experiment. I remember I received them with three wires hanging. I cut off the three prong from two power cords and spliced them to make the wall plugs. So I did connect their grounds. I was only using one at the time and the other was a backup.

Separately mine both produce about 12 psi on a pressure gauge inserted within a few feet of tubing to the ET2. A real dynamo of a pump for only being a couple inches by a few inches.
When I connect them together on a T Valve PSI only goes up to about 15 psi as they are working against one another. Hopefully someone else can chime in if they are using two Medo’s. I went to the Timeter pump after the single Medo. The Medos are a linear piston design if that helps. Maybe Dover if he sees this can offer some advice as he used multiple pumps with his ET2 setup.
Cheers Chris
dover
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Hi Chris/Grant
Yes I used 2 pumps running into a 20 litre surge tank. On the pumps I used, reversing phase & neutral at the transformer inside reversed the phase on one of the pumps. In NZ you must not reverse phase and neutral at the power cord because the mains fuse must be in the phase line.
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