Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

We audiophiles all have our graveyard for old or unused equipment. I, too, still have a Tice clock, a box of various footers, (sorbothane, black diamond racing cones,Walker valid points with lead pucks, the original mod squad tiptoes, Michael Green tuning points) various interconnects and speaker cables dating from 1980's or later, electrical parts and connectors, various capacitors, wire bundles, ic's, circuit board material, tubes, which are still good but replaced with "designers." My favorite piece, now sold, was an ancient 841L EAR preamp I bought as "trash" from a local dealer for $200 because of a bad power switch and power light. -Both replaced for nothing and after years of use and storage, sold for $900. Still on the shelf is an ARC BL-1 which converts SE signals to balanced. My dealer told me to never sell it!
I could go on, but you get the picture.
By the way, Harry, if you don't have the aluminum base, get Bruce to send you one. -Very worthwhile.
John

Thanks again to everyone.  This assistance is better than having a therapist.  

Frogman, yes! absolutely, extra board will surely do the trick.  Perhaps a thin sheet of sorbothane between the two.  Assuming I can figure how to pm, I'll send you my address. Thank you, thank you!

Frogman,
Sent you an introductory pm.  Let me know if you get it.  Want to be sure I send to correct person.
Harry

Hey Harry,
I'm not sure that a piece of godawful sorbothane between armboards would be good. Some areas are meant to be rigid. Then again maybe harmonics would not be crushed by doing this with the VPI? I would check with Harry Weisfeld before doing anything like that. -Just my 2 cents.
John 

Harry, got your introductory pm. Re damping between the boards:

While I agree with John in principle (I am not a fan of Sorbothane), I would, as with all this stuff, let your ears be the final judge. As I see it, because of the way that both boards would be secured tight by bolts to the metal subchassis, I don’t think that rigidity will be an issue. I do think that Sorbo may cause too much damping or you may not like its particular signature. I will include a piece of the material that I used when I made my constrained-layer- damping platforms for my rack. It is a very thin rubberized cloth material that is used in flooring installations that is very effective but not squishy like Sorbo at all. About 1/4 the thickness of the Sorbo sheets that I am familiar with and much more difficult to compress. It is easily reversible if you don’t like it. I find that there are few absolutes when it comes to tweaking, and as much as we would all like to think that our systems are "neutral", most tweaks related to resonance within and outside the system are perceived as positive or negative relative to the particular tonal signatures of our particular pieces of equipment and their cumulative effect. Experimentation with an open mind (ear) is the ticket, imo.