Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners
Frogman - I may just do that; would be the only fair comparison of the two arms That is a review of impressions I would be willing to cough up some coin to read. something a little different - I came across this. The man behind this thread. Scroll down to the bottom for a picture of Bruce. His rotary woofer is the only loudspeaker in the world that can reproduce the sound of Niagara Falls accurately. Falls Fury Rotary woofer |
Interesting comments on the Terminator linear tracking arm from Dgarretson on the MM thread who has fabricated a lightweight carriage from carbon finer instead of aluminium.... 08-16-13Just another reminder that the best place for adding lead mass is on the end of a fishing line. It has no place on the ET. |
08-19-13: Dover Interesting comments from DG as they relate to the Terminator arm. I have only seen pictures of it. imo - it is not valid comparing the ET2, 2.5 and Kuzma Airline in this manner because although the later Kuzma resembles the ET2 in appearance their design objectives are as different as apples and oranges. This has been discussed here. Some facts The Kuzma Airline requires the wires and air tube for damping of the cantilever. Through private Kuzma owner emails I have learned the Kuzma has difficulty with lower VTF and higher compliant cartridges. Requires a heavier cartridge with a stiff cantilever. Any Airline owners disagree with this comment? I don't own it and the reason I ask. The ET2 (2.5) in contrast can play a light high compliant (how about a sonus blue gold at .2gm) or an Acutex 4 series then turn around and play a stiff cantilever on a heavy MC. The ET2, 2.5 requires neither the tubing or wiring for damping and tracks best with no wiring. I know this because I use it this way (no wiring) now to level it and have had it track the record this way - once. I say once because I haven't figured out how to get any sound when I run it this way. again I ask - how do we make it wireless ? Johnathan Carr, Peter Ledermann or another cartridge designer if you see this - this thread is at over 150,000 views. Does anyone have any plans for a wireless cartridge ? I will buy your beta cartridge even if it means putting in some kind of computer chip in my preamp. C'mon Nobody likes wires anyway. They just get in the way. Unless you can set the wires up like Frogman. http://cgim.audiogon.com/i/vs/i/f/1366422461.jpg Then we can call it Art. I have no problem with that. Remember when phones needed wires. My kids don't - they laugh when I tell them. The ET2 also has VTA on the fly that doesn't change parameters like VTF. Set your Airline at the highest and lowest setting and you'll notice your VTF has been altered. This is an owner confirmed comment. Does "any" other arm exist that does vta on the fly? Same thickness records have included cut angles that are random from the different record plants. How do you guys deal with this? The ET2 can also be tuned for different compliance cartridges MC and MM. Cheers |
08-21-13: Ct0517Dgarretson is not comparing the ET2 & Kuzma. His post is quite clear - it is a report on the effect of running the Terminator with different horizontal effective masses. At no point in his post is he comparing the ET2 and Kuzma tonearms. |
Dover Point taken - for some reason these comments from DG 08-18-13: Represented results and reference points to me and assumptions got made. This triggered a need in me to summarize some of the discussions that have been held here on this thread between the two tonearms. This is an unfortunate habit (summarizing) from my work career and the comments were not related to DG’s comments. imo - it is not valid comparing the ET2, 2.5 and Kuzma Airline in this manner bad wording on my part. I certainly hope DG took no offence. I blame the summer heat. Thanks for letting me ramble on and get off with only a warning – this time. |
