Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Besides: How does it sound?

Hi Pegasus

Do you want the description compared to the other turntables ?
or
do you want to know how certain albums, songs, sound, when I am in a certain mood, with a little drink, and with the full moon in play ? :^)

But - looking at physics - how could these holes provide isolation from either acoustically transferred noise (which, if they’d change at all, would rather increase) or structure borne noise.

Let’s forget the massive cavities under the motor and armboards for a moment and concentrate on the build itself - Review the pic I posted. Look at the alternating layering. The design is meant to dampen/absorb resonances. The armboard is connected to the plinth in four spots where the bolts go in. Armboards can be any material - interchangeable- mine came as a hardwood.

Note: Some, build a plinth for an idler one time, and then modify it, or leave it alone. JN has gone through XX maybe XXX ? plinth builds to get to where he is today with his tables. Just saying. He does have passion. An owner of such a table does "not" think about changing any part of it because of the road it took. You would be messing with it. It is, the table, based on his vision.

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Hi Harry - do you think you will be up and running soon ?

Chris

Hi Chris,
I've not been dead in the water.  The existing setup with mag arm was fine on non-think records.  I just didn't have any room to raise VTA any further.  While waiting for Bruce's screws and Frogman's extra armboad I tried Frogman's suggestion of placing washers between the arm board and the metal sub plinth.  In my case I used 1/4 in. tall nylon spacers.  Had to get longer screws to screw the armboad back to the sub plinth but it was an easy fix.  The 1/4 inch was just the right amount of extra height to gain back VTA range.  I've only been listening a short time but my initial impression is positive, however, I think I've lost a little transparency and focus.  Perhaps with the arm board sitting up on the spacers rather than secured tightly to the metal plinth I'm getting a little resonance in the arm board.  Or perhaps it's the nylon and I should have used steel washers as Frogman suggested.  The jury is still out. Want to do some more listening.

Im beginning to believe there is no life outside of the ET arm 🙄

That would be non-thick records.  You know, the ones we used to pay a few bucks for.

Before you attribute any perceived changes to the raised board make sure that you first make the comparison with the VTA EXACTLY the same as it was before you raised it.  What made your initial impression positive? 

 Hi guys, just wanted to warn everyone about a negative  interaction I had with some clown who has an ad posted saying he wants an ET two tonearm.  I answered his ad as I have two of them and right now I am using neither. The one I offered him is in perfect condition and I paid a tech $400 to put a straight shot of top-of-the-line cardas wiring going to their termination block.   The VTA block works perfectly and it is in excellent condition. There is also two pumps with it that I have seen go for good bucks on eBay.   Well he offers me way less than my asking and starts calling me an idiot  and other names when I tell him  never mind, good luck  with the search. He tells me my pump is worth 40 bucks and as proof posts a pic of one on eBay that is not even remotely the same thing. Then he tells me the wiring is $53.   Heck if he has a technician that will put a metre of top-of-the-line card ass wiring on for that money I want to know!  He says that's the trouble with us audio files we think her stuff is all worth way more than it is. Just wanted to put a heads up on this forum as  there could be a good chance somebody from here would offer to sell him one.  I would suggest not to bother as he's obviously looking for champagne on a beer budget.  And nobody needs the verbal abuse from some clown on the Internet.