Sirius and Walker

Jtinn, can you think of any belt drive design that could touch Rockport? I am just curious.

Inna: Good question. At times I have heard the Continuum Caliburn surpass the sound of the Rockport and at other times, it did not sound close. I would definitely consider it right there or even possibly better.

Other than the Continuum, I have not heard a belt drive that comes close.

Hi everyone, very interesting topic! I have obtained a used ET2 with Bruce’s upgrade 2.5 bearing, but have yet to set it up.

I am very interested in the discussion on the I-beam compliance. As far as I can tell, the arm on the Walker Proscenium turntable (which is of similar design to the ET2) has a direct couple counterweight. Since the Walker is being regarded as one of the best, I was thinking of modifying the ET2 in such manner.

I wonder what are the pros and cons to the 2 different approaches.

Dear Danhirsh: IMHO I think that a precise bis a bis comparison between these great TTs is something almost impossible to have because both use two different dedicated tonearms and we have to remember that the cartridge/tonearm relationship is so close that makes a unit where the quality performance level and differences resides mainly in this tonearm/cartridge relationship.
This not means that the TT is not important or that it does not add its own signature because it did.

For me to make a comparison a fair comparison could be only if both TT share the same tonearm. In this way we can really have and know the real contribution by each TT in the overall quality performance level.

Anyway, the ones with experiences on both sides as Jtinn or M.Lavigne are very good and the only " approach " about.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.