Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

"The Common Man"...(me)...

I'm here for you.. This is who I am. I'm an avid music lover. The exception.. (a music lover who enjoys reproduced music done "well").

I've always put my life's emphasis on high quality music reproduction. Myteen years, I was the guy with the "van", I escorted my friends around for all our "enjoyment"! I used to frequent music stores, purveying the latest speakers and such.I realize now,I was listening for the best sound.

Thirty years later, I'm still searching for the "pot of gold" the best sound. I've found that now.

There's a price point... the plateau were one realizes that to gain more musical satisfaction in any realistic/financial way, without spending "major bucks", you find a "resting place".

My "resting place" is with the EAR, using the MM phono stage w/ Telefunken/ Seimens tubes and high dissipation "underpinning", and a Grover power cord.

This, my friends, MAKES music. It doesn't make "audio gymnastics".

Yes, there's a lot of gear I'd like to try/build, but folks, I'm perfectly happy with this EAR and my Acutex cartridge!

What brought this issue to mind was, I was playing the Allman Brother's "Enlightened Rogues" lp. Yes, the very one that doesn't get any press! This spoke to me, to who I really am. Why? This lp has the very soul of the AB, it has the boogie factor... so why does it not resonate with the "public"? This may be what sets people like me apart from the 'crowd".

FWIW, I feel this lp, my choice of the EAR, my current cartridge (Acutex), really speaks to the "Soul" of music reproduction!

The Book will follow!

My mentioning of having to "ream out the spindle hole", got me to thinking. (Sorry).

We spend thousands of dollars on equipment. Then we see a need for (tt owners) high priced speed controllers. I hear no one talking about the lps that we so cherish, being pressed in the very way that most of the time gives a market for these high priced accessories. If you pay attention, I'd say 80% (conservatively) of the lps we purchase today are "off center". This is (the) very basic issue, that we, (as people who spend a major part of our live's, by time and treasure and as lp listeners), should be more vocal about.

My audiophile "toolbox": I mentioned earlier the Bosch level, this should be in every audiophile's "toolbox" as should an Exacto knife,(lp players only), for reaming out the spindle holes of improperly pressed lps. There, I said it. I keep this knife very handy at every listening session.

If at some point in time, I put an lp up for sale, and that lp has gotten this treatment, you will be the beneficiary.

"The Book", Chapter one...

Music.. what is it? How does it connect with us? What is it about people playing instruments, reaching deep into their souls that, somehow reaches into our souls and then makes us "clean"?

This very subject could have been a novel idea for a dissertation.

The instruments are an extension of our "very being". The very basic feelings that are within us all. So, what does it take for these very basic instincts, that are within us all, to "come out"?

This question is essential to our understanding of who we all are.

These are the very questions I should have been asking myself back in the late 60's early 70's.

Is it time for Chapter two?...

No matter... I think that many chapters later, Bruce has found a way for us all to experience these unasked question, whether we realize them or not.

"Audio Gymnastics"... Definition: in audio reproduction terms, IMO, it means a "passing moment in time" where one enjoys the sound one is hearing, however, this "passing moment" doesn't please in the long term.

We are all willing to make these momentary audio pleasures a focus, while "in the moment" very compelling, in the long term, "uninvolving".

This is a very compelling aspect of how we are drawn in to buying very expensive audio components.

Upon evaluating our life long audio pleasing "moments", we, if we are being honest, "WAKE UP", to the fact that we are just "feeding" the "machine'.

All we need to do is please ourselves, not what we feel, (not by other's standards, saying we should please ourselves).

This, my friends, is how some audio companies, feed upon our most basic, true, feelings. Yet, without much thought, we succumb to their knowledge of this and we "line" their pockets with our hard earned money.

Is there a "Book" 3 in the works?

You ET-2 guys are the mad scientists `Ö´ you constantly and fearlessly keep experimenting. Fantastic hobby, very interesting reading. :-)