Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

I've seen the AQ7000 for sale for $300, and I couldn't let it go for that. I have an interesting story about that cartridge. After a few years use, the stylus went missing from the cantilever. -Don't know what happened, but when I let AQ know about it, they offered to send me their demonstrator which was barely used from their demo room in exchange for my worthless mess. I respect that company greatly for that. Anyway, it's my backup, and I have trouble hearing an improvement with my Lyra Kleos. You know that Jon Carr designed both. So, sorry no interest here.
I have an Alita pump on order and will report back my impressions.
Cheers,
John

Hi John

Welcome to the thread.

I would also like to try the direct wiring harness, but don't know where to look for one. Any links available?

Pic 7 on my virtual system page shows one of my looms made for me years ago by Take Five Audio using WBT Next Gen Plugs. Here is the link to their information

"Take Five Audio"


Gene the owner, has made multiple looms for me and I have put friends onto him as well so that's one option for you. You would also be getting a 30% dollar exchange discount and probably free shipping. Just tell them you are inquiring into one of those ET looms you made for Chris. He will outline what parts are available, choice of wiring and even do a burn in for you. He does a nice tapered approach at the plug end which gives a lot of strength.

Cheers Chris  

Good morning John,
Thanks for tip on the VTA gauge.  Unfortunately, it won't fit with my dust cover.  I think I have it dialed in correctly now.

Small world.  My brother-in-law lives in Mooresville, just outside of Charlotte and if it is the same ROBERT, I have, indeed, been to his house/shop.  It is on the lake.  Nice guy and very knowledgeable.
Harry

Hi Harry

re: VTA

The Lyra site shows your cartridge is made with a 20 degree vertical tracking angle.

One of Bruce’ findings documented in the ET2 manual.

The European vertical angle cutting standard closely matches the vertical angle present on modern day phono carts.

He’s done the analysis. If I brought a Lyra cart home I would grab one of my European made records that I like, set the top of the cart parallel with the record and go from there by ear. This is also appears to be the advice that John has given, and he is an actual Lyra owner. :^0

And I know we are aware of this but it’s worth repeating imo.

1) There are different vertical cut angles on records. And every time they change the cutting stylus, it is not a precise replacement. Also Logic says the Vertical cut angle on a new cutting stylus will not be exactly the same as it was before on the worn stylus. Then there is as we know,

2) Good and bad recordings of music. Some bright and highly compressed. I don’t like to fiddle with VTA too much. I have found with carts I have used that I can find an overall good spot using a European made record. Fine tuning out brightness and compression can be done using my pre-amp by either dialing the gain (separate from the volume) up or down. If its a good recording I can crank the gain up on my pre amp and set the volume from there.

Also

In talking with a couple studios that do vinyl in my area a few years ago, they indicated to me that if new music comes in from an artist that was recorded on better than CD quality files; these are indeed the files used for the LP usually; but one would need to check on a studio by studio basis to verify if you were really interested in that album. My digital is really good. I run off a dedicated Lenovo laptop to my ARC DAC8. I have a lot of vinyl to get through so I myself will not buy new 2017 vinyl of "new music" for an artist I "really" like, unless I can determine that the source digital files used were indeed better than cd quality 44.1 khz 16-bit.

Cheers Chris

Hey Harry,
I gave up the dust cover a long time ago, as my I-beam is too long to fit under it.
I hope you don't play lp's with the cover in place, but you probably already knew that the cover ruins the sq of the table.
By the way, I used to "moonlite" in Mooresville on weekends. -nice area.
John