Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

BTW, I can understand that persons like, say,, lew can use this tonearm

because we know tha he owns a cellar. After all he told us to own two

systems; one in the living room the other in his cellar (+ wine of course)

But  where should owners of this ''best ever arm'' put the motor for the

''air production'' to prevent the  nvolved '''noise'' ??

@nandric

Hello Nikola

Most ET2 Users use the ET2 supplied pump, it makes very little noise cannot be heard from 6 feet away and is placed on the floor next to the turntable.
When you order a car you have options. You can select a bigger engine, you can select more horsepower from the same engine. Bruce offers this bigger engine as the 2.5. And he can modify the horsepower the smaller and larger engine make based on your needs. From approximately 3 PSI stock ET2 (base product) to 19 PSI. This applies to the ET2 and the ET2.5 which is the bigger engine with the bigger manifold. Every ET 2 or 2.5 was made for a certain amount of PSI in Bruce’ lab.
Public Chat Forums attract Aficionados in every hobby. Some of us here, represent the extreme end. Many of the discussions are about these mods and upgrades we have done. There are many modifications and upgrades that can be done and this is all possible because the design has few limits. I trust you and others have enjoyed these discussions.
Why Wittgenstein ? I would prefer Newton as what we are discussing here is basic physics. Think of your childhood teeter totter and trying to enjoy with a friend that was not the same weight as you. Do you remember the teeter totter and having to sit closer or further away from your friend in order to balance? The concept is the same here. The PSI gives us lift off, and we can fly sideways and pivot with no friction unlike other air bearing designs.
Does Slivovitz boost memory Nikola ? I can tell you that Scotch and Canadian Beer does not.

@ct0517 

And one of the best arms ever made regardless of price and most unfairly maligned.

It beggars belief that on audiogon there is so much misinformation on the ET2, when discussing tonearms in general, when the Eminent Technology website contains more testing and test data to support the design and substantiate their claims on performance than any other tonearm on the market. 

It's sad that there is much to learn on the ET website even if your preference is a conventional pivoted arm that folk just cant be bothered to take advantage of Bruces formidable knowledge.

Hi my former compatriot. I was glad to hear that you got an new home.

My hope was also that this home would have an cellar. Not necessary for

an tonearm but for your collections. Those are totally different depending

from personal (subjectiv??) preferences . Say our lew has huge space

needed for his TT's and you in addition for all your speakers. 

My only ''problem'' with this tonearm thread is this: ''are you listening to

the music?'' ''Af course not: I am busy with modifiaction nr.. 123 ...''

As you know I try to make ''Serbian jokes''. Alas humor seems to be culturaly 

determined . 

But there are other more curious problems . Zoologist,  for example, start their

research from the ''wrong side''. Aka from our capabities and try to convince

us that, say, ape can nearly think, count and even speak like humans. So no

wonder nobody in our forum not even Raul, Dover or even our scientist Lew

ever mentioned their  dogs  who have  better HEARING THAN THEY THEMSELF. 

Hi my former compatriot (again) . You should explain what Slivoitz means.

It is plum brandy made form blue plums the best ever drink inveted by

human kind. It helps certainly if one has sleeping problems. One can think

much better after good sleep I assume. Whay not Newtons instead of

Wittgenstein . I don't belive Bewton formulated 10000 laws. This nr.

I needed to refer to the nr. of contributions in this thread. But thanks

to my Slivovitz I got other inspiration . The question conneted with

''number theory''. Aka the Hume princple about ''corespodence'' between

them. Say 5 TT and how many arms if each TT correspond with, say, ONE.

As far as I know even ''our dover'' owns more than one. How can he enjoy

the lesser next to the ''best ever''? Lew I assume owns 5 in corepsondence with 

his 5 TT' s such that he get ''one to one corepsondennce '' between them.

If seen as SETS. I dont bleieve our Lew will be'confronted  with ''set theoretic

paradoxes''. I myself own 3 but FR-64 s ''twice'' (cooper and silver kinds).

I am very fond about this ''beauty'' primary because my lazinnes. I hate

''adjustings procedures''. They look to me like religious gatherings . 

There are no such easy to adjust tonearms like FR-64 S. I can do this

without thinking. I also have no reason to fear comaprison with my Reed 3P

nor with my ''better Breuer'' ,, aka my Sumiko 800 ''the arm'' with all 6 contra weights.

As far as I know by each harem the owner have had his preferences.