Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

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

You straight in loom guys are ganging up on me.

Damn straight shooters .....8^0

Choices are clear to me. One can walk around the forest, or go through it.

Harry - re: your mini farm comment.
Farms, gardens, even "lawns" are a lot of work. Lawns around here are going to hell with the Pesticide ban. Controlling ones lawn has become a very difficult thing. Friends cross the border into the US at Niagara Falls to purchase (Killex) at big box stores; then smuggle it back.

My neighbor’s "hobby" is his lawn. He goes out there and picks the weeds out one by one.

and the original litz wire from Bruce effects the arm balance not at all.

IMO, The best way to determine this John is with Gravity and physics. Forget the bubble levels. Move your arm to different spots on the platter. With air on - place the cartridge weight blue tac blob on the weights. Make it free float. If the spindle does not move it is balanced. Try it at the lead in, middle and run out grooves.

I should put this much detail into my lawn. :^(