Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

I made the same change after seeing the nice "loom" made by Take-5 that one of you posted years ago, ordered the Cardas wire, clips and plugs and did my own, my tips on the RCA were not as nice looking, but still functional.

Later, bought a second wand from Bruce and made my own new loom with Litz wire I acquired from Trans-fi (the Terminator guy, Vic), he has a smoking deal on kits with clips and reasonably priced wire.

Now I can swap cartridges and/or wire much easier, currently very happy with the Litz / Ortrofon Quintet Black combo.

Audio setup can be like a jungle. 
Running your setup with a Straight Shot To Preamp "Unshielded Loom",  is akin to ....running through the woods naked.
Free Willy.  Well.... maybe some running shoes.
In both cases try to keep the run / loom short for best results, and with running - best not to Free Willy in May when the blackflies are hovering.

Cardas still makes his RCA jacks and plugs of brass! The WBT Nextgen and Klei use copper and/or silver, and with anti-eddy current RCA "barrels".

Hello all,
Been away for a while.  Spring has arrived in Western Carolina and my mini farm has been demanding attention.

John,
I don't know what Calypsos and Callistos are so I guess I don't have either.  Enlighten me.  I agree, with my Delos level and all other parameters set I find myself playing with VTA less and less.

Chirs,
My complaints were just poking fun at myself.  All of these choices/tweaks, aside from being a great learning experience, have brought me a whole lot of great listening.  I agree, don't start playing with the sub until everything else is set up to your liking.  I don't run my sub from the preamp and only use the crossover in the sub for setting the upper limit for sub.  Main speakers are driven directly from power amp and sub driven from power amp to high level inputs on sub.

You straight in loom guys are ganging up on me.  It's not that I don't believe you.  I'm just intimidated by the thought of all that loose wire hanging all over my ET II.

Bill Evans is calling,

Harry

Hey Harry,
I was mixed up about which preamp you were using. Sorry.
I'm with you on the loom thing. My AQ interconnects with the DBS system are working just fine (it apparently keeps the dielectric in the cables constant), and the original litz wire from Bruce effects the arm balance not at all. There are trade offs in everything. I'm sure that a straight shot from cartridge to preamp with a loom would sound great, but I simply don't want to take everything apart and start over again. 
-John