Tonearm recommendation

@Raul

Dear ct0517: With all respect, a tonearm designer not necessary is an experienced audiophile. Some are but not all.

Raul, we know. As a tonearm designer yourself; you even created a thread called Are You a True Audiophile. Now myself, I can’t post there because I am a part time audiophile, and full time music lover. I don’t qualify sorry.

Every post on this forum is an opinion.
Now usually, you don’t get manufacturers coming onto public chat forums and posting opinions about other products, without trying to do a little sell of their own products. There is tremendous bias. So when one of them speaks good about another product, and why - it can be interesting reading and hence my posted link. Apparently it was not interesting to you. I understand. no problem.

Raul - if you can provide us with a top view pic of your ET2 setup to start, I can tell you my opinion. The ET2 can be tweaked to sound like other tonearms. It is a tweakers delight, and this is why so many can go wrong with it. I can make it sound closer to a Fidelity Research 6 series tonearm too. Are you interested to know how to do this ?

back to the Frank Schroeder link I attached in the previous post.
What I found interesting about that link is that FS made mention to a number of tonearms even the base original ET2.
Now it is clear from his wording that he does not know himself, how to set up one properly, and was just going by what he was hearing.
He has no reason/agenda, like you Raul, to learn how to set it up properly. It is of no benefit to him. His makes his own tonearms.
The comment about mounting an ET2 on a suspended oracle has validity, and is discussed quite a bit on our ET2 thread.

Crazy Bill
Its warmer here today about 2 degrees celsius and it is starting to snow. Not much snow this winter we had a brown Christmas.
Chores await - maybe talk with you guys tomorrow.

Happy Listening.

Dear CT0517: """  He has no reason/agenda, like you Raul ... """""

a huge mistake from your part. Almost all those opinions comes from several many years and today only are confirmedwith better facts/experiences elsewhere.

"""  Are You a True Audiophile ?. Now myself, I can’t post there because I am a part time audiophile, and full time music lover. I don’t qualify sorry.  """

wrong here too because first than all we must be a MUSIC LOVER and be in touch with live music and after that comes that audiophile word and meaning. So your contribution there is not only welcomed but very important too.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear cleeds: fabricated?. That's why some of you can't understand or just are against my opinions: because I had and have experiences you don't live yet. Not only that experience but ( example ) : heard in home places systems ( everykind. )  that goes from 35K to 400K+ big bucks with the same Lp tracks. These kind of experiences ( and those owners posted here on Agon about my visit to them. Not a history as you say. ) gives  so many critical information that is an invaluable one and that put light to so many other " roads " to re-think ouir hobby again.

My first advise to any audiophile ( other that attend to listen live music. ) is to listen as many audio system you can listening ( if you can, sometimes we can't do it. ) to the same LP tracks that you know better that your " hands ".

There are no secrets out there only more or less experiences and the positive attitude to learn always, that's all. Keep listening!!!


regards and enjoy the music,
R.