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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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frogman
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Very good explanation of the pronunciation of "project"! I was, of course, kidding re projects. I have so many unfinished ones waiting for retirement that it's not even funny; Forsell, ET2/Forsell shootout, Acutex cart cocobolo body, among others. My wife, like you, is a project manager and she loves her work. I did, however, have to put my foot down and ask that I not be presented with monthly pie charts of our expenses :-)

Although our pond upstate is not a lake, I am typing while listening to a performance by half a dozen bullfrogs each making a sound that is remarkably like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLOgAjPtA35NR28TypURaO-giLn9VMmw8S&v=nCAA2fEHaa4
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ct0517 OP
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Frogman - I am typing while listening to a performance by half a dozen bullfrogs each making a sound that is remarkably like this:

How fitting. A post about the music of "frogs" from Frogman.
Ours resonate at Double Bass A :^)
frogman
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Those frogs are the lowest. Eh?
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Oh you got me curious now Frogman.

So the bullfrogs where we are sound most like the Double Bass instrument to me, and are in A. But at what octave ?

Here is an interesting link for the Double bass.

Double Bass Frequency chart

We can see for A - the lowest octave is 27.5 hz. But our bullfrogs play at a higher octave. As octaves go up the frequency doubles.

So I played around on the computer this morning. The bull frogs are really close to this note.

Push the A Piano key

I then did an internet search sampling bass Hz on the internet.

110 HZ

Damn - aren't they at 110 hz !

Now here is the crazy gear aspect of this.

My Lenovo laptop built in speakers CAN'T play this note. It can only be heard (110 hz) with my old pair of full size headphones plugged into the Lenovo laptop.

ok... I need to be careful here. If my wife catches me having this much fun she will give me another PRA-ject to do.
frogman
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Excellent analysis of the sound of your bullfrogs, Chris; worthy of a side bar in The Absolute Frog magazine. Or, should it be Fraaag? Interesting how yours sound so different than mine do. And amazing how such a small creature can produce such low frequencies. There may be a lesson in there (dissection?) for the Totem design team. My bullfrogs sound like this (go to the last of the five audio samples) and notice the similarity to the "twang" of the Brazilian percussion instrument in my previous clip.

http://soundbible.com/tags-bullfrog.html

BTW, if this is part of what retirement has to offer, I'm there! :-)
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