Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Ct0517..
Increasing the room temperature by 5 degrees F ( 3 C ) is enough to soften the rubber suspension in the cartridge and drop the VTA by 1 degree.
I would assume by the time you have finished a session you will have softened up the suspension and this may explain some of what you hear.
Where you live it is quite easy to experiment - start with a cold room and warm it up, or put a lamp over the cartridge so the heat is localised. You will hear quite a difference - as the cartridge reaches optimum temperature the sound opens up and becomes more natural, as you overheat the cartridge the sound will literally go gluggy. What I have experienced is some cartridges mistrack on a seasonal basis (winter vs summer) here in NZ even though the temperature swings are not large, eg the Shelters. The Benz's generally spec out the optimum temperature and humidity ranges in their cartridge packaging.

Dover - in the winter the OTL's are enough to keep my room at the temp it started at - heating vents closed. The last couple summer months with the door/windows closed in my basement room the temp will go up 1 degree every hour. The OTL's are like two 50 inch plasma tv's as far as heat out put goes. With the door or window open this drops by half - 1 degree every two hours.

Just got mine up and running! This is a very big change from the stock Classic arm. Took some time to find a compressor and build a surge tank, but well worth it.

Tim

Hi Tim

This is a very big change

A comment with a certain amount of suspense attached to it. :^)

Please do share impressions with us once you have had enough listening time.

Cheers