Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Hi Slaw, thanks for the lp recommendations.
A Blues Man.... you are :^)

Hope you don't mind; I put your recommendations in clickable form below to share with the others.

Slaw
The Audioquest label gave us some FINE lps!

I can only remark on the ones that I own.

So, what's the difference? IMO, It's obviously the recording engineer, "Joe Harley", plus the total lack of compression!

Terry Evans. "Puttin' It Down"

Robert Lucas, "Luke & the Locomotives"
"Usin'"Mans's Blues"

(I'm ready for a long term relationship, if, and only if, I can find a female music lover that is committed to this arm!)LOL!

Slaw, well for me I have to say I am very happy that my wife puts up with my audio "shenanigans". I get away with alot...I don't want to push it anymore. however the further she stays away from the 2.0 and 2.5 the better.

For you however let imagine this scenario.

You are attending a big audio musical event.
You visit one of the "big rooms", one where the sponsoring audio manufacturer has paid big bucks for the space.
Ultra "high end gear" in there, and obviously this includes an analog setup. There are many people in this room.

Turntable cost - $100,000 us.
Tonearm cost - $15,000 us
Cartridge cost - $7,000 us.

The look on their faces when "this" person walks in......priceless $$

Happy Listening

Fabulous piece of equipment!

Not a bad tonearm either :-)

Would love one of those t.... , ah, I mean, Tshirts.

Do you have a source?

Thanks.

Frogman - Your post made me spit up my drink. lol.

Do you have a source?

Where there is audiophile will - there is always a way. if there is interest...

I came across this recent review for Bruce's speakers - ET LFT-8b. I owned 8a's at one time and regret letting them go. In the article I discovered something about Bruce that I found fascinating so I wanted to share.

While my review of the LFT-8b was in progress, Thigpen went off to Africa to help with a study on the hearing of infrasound by elephants—he would be the man to go to for infra-sound all right. See rotarywoofer.com for more.

The whole article.

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/eminent-technology-lft-8b-loudspeaker/

Chris, Bruce is indeed a fascinating individual and his talent is obviously never in question. After half a dozen, or so, phone conversations over the years I have gotten the sense that he is a kind of "mad scientist"; and, I say that in the most positive way possible. He has always been willing to speak on the phone and provide help with not a bit of impatience, but never touts or hypes any of his products or ideas; he has a sense about him of very quiet confidence with a bit of dryness. Speaking of his subwoofer: I have often wondered how a person does and funds r&d for a product like that. How many can he possibly have sold so far? Have you ever heard/seen this thing? I would love to.

I too have been a fan of his planars and came very close to buying a pair of one the very first models (model # escapes me) of them years ago. I first heard them at a local dealer and a little later at an audio show here in town where his speakers and Meitner (another genius) products were part of a system. As much as I love Meitner products (I still have the old MTR 101's and Pa6i in a second system) the sound at the show was a disaster due to their use of the Meitner turntable. Remember that one? It is a beautiful thing and has no platter to speak of so any warps of the vinyl surface become extremely audible; at least that's what I heard that day. I kept wanting to ask the guy: can't you hear that! I think that unfortunately that experience derailed my interest in the speakers at that particular time.