Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Dover-Chris, Thanks... I'm using a carbon fiber arm wand. My main concern in my upcoming tt design is the tonearm wire construction, and implementation. Some of you may remember, I have the AN wire in the wings, I'm not very confident on my skills as a small guage tonearm wire constructor. "Huh?" I've had several carts, throughout the years, mm & mc's, there is more noise associated with MM's. Should/could I try to run a ground from the armwand separately? My belief is that the CF armwand is a cf skin, on a magnesium or aluminum core??? The headshell is the same for all armwands???

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Chris/Slaw - At the time I tried the van den hul the arm was mounted on a Roksan Xerxes. I was using a Shure V15Vmr so that could have been a contributing factor for picking up RF due to the higher impedance than a MC. Having said that, with litz wire there was no RF in the same situation. This suggests that even if you cant hear RF a litz wire will provide a lower noise floor.

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Chris. I don't have any first hand experience with arm pods. They tend to go against the grain so to speak, in the quest for absolute dimensional stability between platter and arm. That said it seems that there are many admirers of this approach and, other than to quote others, it would not be prudent for me to comment on the sound of something I have not personally heard.

Re arm wiring and earthing.
For anyone looking to earth the aluminium wand. Anodised al is an insulator so you would need to scratch thru this to bare metal. Something I would be reluctant to do.

Earthing the air stream should be done as close as possible to the arm. I have a pressure gauge close by and have grounded the metal part of this that protrudes into the air line. Simply cutting the hose and rejoining with an appropriately sized metal tube would do. Solder an earth wire to this. You can expect a quieter backdround and a good jump in transients.

I have been waiting for someone to run the arm wiring completely outside the wand and spindle. The results would be interesting, assuming that there are no RF issues.
Wouldn't look to pretty however.

Richard, that exactly what I have done. I run AudioNote wire from cartridge clips, underneath the arm wand (secured at two points along the span), then forming a loop from the back of the arm wand to the pillar, all the way to my phono pre, where it is hardwired to the circuit board. Not particularly unatractive and works very well.