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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners A few comments about the offered arms:- the ET one is a good choice for a low to medium compliance cartridge, usually a MC. I think the bearing was almost (?) as high quality as the "low pressure" ET2 bearing. The bearing (and the headshell / arm... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners @chrisI think the reason for the ET2 spindle design was a) it was quite brillant with any cartridge (and still is). b) the ET2 spindle is ca. 23 g vs. 31g (ET 2.5). This concerns horizontal mass 1:1. Also the bearings outer tube is considerably he... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The road: started for me with the Et One ca. 1985. After I’d explained the physical drawbacks of the construction a few months earlier to an enthusiasmized friend... :-)It worked sonically rather well - with the one exception of the somewhat lackl... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners - BTW - anybody had the issue, that the damping trough "moved" over a long time? Ie. the bonding tape letting loose slightly, not symmetrically bearing side vs. outer side. In consequence the "oil bath" is not level with a level arm.- Any plusminu... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Chris it looks not the "traditional London way" as in your photograph, instead it's this way:https://audio-intl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/c_91_pro.pngIf one looks carefully, one can see the thread that "secures" the cantilever from the fro... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Ahh, good to know that! :-) | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks Chris - pretty sums it up.- Why London?I recorded my brothers "world music" LP collection from the 70’s end of 70s to ca. 1980. Garrard SB 100 Decca Grey cartridge, top "high end" Pioneer receiver :-), recorded to a portable JVC pro cassett... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners - Regarding London Maroon / Art Dudley (Listening 156):In the comments about arm matching, Art got the resonance frequencies of the Abis SA1 the wrong way: The horizontal is in his test about an octave lower (centered around 6Hz) vs. vertical (aro... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Davey, you’re outside of the fenced green pastures of audiophile correctness if you mount an ET2 or ET2.5 onto a Linn. But outside the fence, there’s life too!Because the ET2 / 2.5 is not a heavy arm it’s feasible, probably needs "expert tuning... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Chris - yes I remember that frogman has direct experience with a Decca London, although not all Londons are created equal, you could try it. Although it also waits for being mounted in a Thales Easy arm... sending a cartridge between continents... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Chris - thanks for your thoughts!As you might remember I already owned the ET One and bought the ET2 about when it came out, and the physics behind interest me and I try to understand, master & use them since a long time... and I actually l... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners "Do the wrong thing!"Having trouble with my London cartridges mechanical behaviour, having tried quite long, I concluded that I simply wasn’t able to apply enough damping, the thing was "meta-stable", although there were quite a few elements of gr... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I recently was returned to AMC (the analogue manic clinic.)It started with staring at the cold black turntable and dust accumulating there on. We know that seeing dust & cleaning is dangerous to many in average predominantly female persons, le... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I use a bottle of pressurized air, this comes from an industrial gas tank company. It’s not "free air" anymore, but it holds for a pretty long time, at least with my ca. 0.7 Bar optimized high pressure bearing. I think it’s somewhere around 2-3 l/... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus My main point is: The difference I heard was as clearly audible as any I ever heard. Between a very good stereo and a "real mono" cartridge. It’s the kind of difference every non-audiophile hears, because it’s the difference between kind of fake a... |