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Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners


Where are you? What mods have you done ?

I have been using these ET2's for over 9 years now.
I am still figuring them out and learning from them. They can be modified in so many ways. Bruce Thigpen laid down the GENIUS behind this tonearm over 20 years ago. Some of you have owned them for over 20 years !

Tell us your secrets.

New owners – what questions do you have ?

We may even be able to coax Bruce to post here. :^)

There are so many modifications that can be done.

Dressing of the wire with this arm is critical to get optimum sonics along with proper counterweight setup.

Let me start it off.

Please tell us what you have found to be the best wire for the ET-2 tonearm ? One that is pliable/doesn’t crink or curl. Whats the best way of dressing it so it doesn’t impact the arm. Through the spindle - Over the manifold - Below manifold ? What have you come up with ?
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pegasus
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@slaw 
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I realize that the platform it was on was the main culprit. In the meantime I decided to go other routes in which I’ve learned quite a lot from.
The freedom of will is a crime these days, which is a joke in the context of our discussion...  ;-) (But is actually not really a joke)
While the ET2 sounded very good on the Merrill Heirloom turntable, The modded Technics unleashed a new level of solidity and added transparency, which is due to the absence of sprung subchassis and rotational movements of the subchassis. This is in short what I learned.
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nandric
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What is obvious to me is the fact that all owners of the ET-2

have such unbelievable memory. They can remember all the

improvements they made during all those years of trying.

Dear frogman, I assume that you learned in China the cryptic

way to express yourself. I needed to read your post 3 times in

order to grasp that you addressed Chris ''distante compatriot''.

Dear ''distante compatriot'' , I somewhere estimated that we are

1/4 compatriots. Who would believe that you count me as your

family member next to your wife in this context? Your LP's

collection is impressive but how do you know which one to

chose next among them? I separated my collection in two

parts in order not to rely on my memory. No wonder that I don't

own the ET-2 . Which improvement to try would be an

impossible question to answer (grin).

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ct0517 OP
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^^^
What LP’s ?  not referring to records. 
Look again 6 O’clock
there is the biggest threat


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ct0517 OP
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Nandric
but how do you know which one to
chose next among them?


Nikola
I have four rooms that contain records and I think they will become a burden when I am not around anymore. I have started talks with my son about how to deal with them.

What is important.is the records I play. 
The records I play I call my "ready play" records, and are stored next to me, at arm reach in my main room 1, on the floor in four rows, against the wall. They are organized, updated - these four rows - based on my current state. 

The first row music and or lyrics make me want to smile and sing.

The second row goes one further and may provoke me to want to get up and dance. Maybe wave my arms around. Room 2 is better for arm waving. If you want to score points with the spouse, let her see you dancing by yourself, especially to Classical. She will get confused and you will gain leverage.   

The third row - brings me to tears. Mostly women opera singers, or the violin.

The fourth row - just out of arms reach. You know I need to be careful with the fourth row. Too much playing of music from this fourth will plant seeds in your head for revolting against your government (or the wife - same thing) One can get into big trouble with too much music and lyrics from the fourth row.

frogman
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Dear Nikola, it was, in fact, you who I addressed in that post. Perhaps your confusion is simply a smoke screen and you are an even better cryptologist than I.

Beware the “threat”:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3flw200lX8

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