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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I agree that the ET2 has (probably) the only thouroughly intelligent VTA adjustment, though it isn't / wasn't without problems in my setup. It used / uses very low torque direct wires, lower torque than original. With my arm lateral levelness was ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Chris & Dave! Funnyly, I watched through all the cartridge setup videos, and the long "testicles" video about cartridges inner qualities & problems the last three days. There is a lot of common assumptions and concepts about cartridge s... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Mkieser! I assume you checked this, but in case not...It's quite easy to upset the lateral balance of the arm while changing cartridges or arm wands. Did you carefully check levelness?I had issues with levelness even when using the VTA adjustme... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi frogman, yes it seems so. But think about a "normal" mount on a rectangular base:The arm is mounted "precisely" and travels exactly parallel to two sides of the plinth. Correct tracking then runs on a line exactly parallel to the sides, crossin... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hey Brad,Also check for obstructions in the airline and nipple feeding the body of the manifold housing.DaveIt’s always preferable to eliminate obstacles between nipples and the mani folds of our bodies...Fumbling around (...) with air bearing arm... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Last time I did an extended cartridge optimization session for a customer (SME arm), we extensively tweaked the tracking force and bias (.. ;-) by ear.Start at the lower end of the tracking force, and prepare small balls of Blue-Tak at 0.1 gram, m... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I don't know your degree, so I don't tell you mine... ;-)Except that you will find the formulas if you feel the need.It's a rather elevated compliance in these days, not Shure-high but probably, relating to ct517 experiences, it better fits a ET 2... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks for the captivating infos!- Although I agree on the idea of eliminating turbulence - isn't damping it not also introducing an additional flow resistance which will upset the "balance" of implicite air flow resistances from air feed via cal... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners thoughts on two or three open questions & i-beam@richardkrebs: - I'm looking forward seeing pictures of your bearing tower!- I did not yet try the elevated bearing position with the original ET bearing tower, as there will be drawbacks stiffne... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners A few thoughts regarding longer i-beam and leverage:- While the captive air-bearing has advantages in stiffness, the ET design with stationary bearing has only one point with centered forces within the bearing along the arm travel. This "allows" s... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi John, no, your WISA pumps work the same. But connecting them parallel and out of phase makes them work the same way as a double diaphragm pump, like the original HiBlow: Single ended vs. push-pull... The air pressure is much more constant, "sta... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners This is indeed the way I tested this. Stylus in groove, platter stationary, pump running, phono gain turned up. In this test the HiBlow was audibly quieter than *my* WISA 300 high pressure. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Regarding pumps and pressure:a) Back in the 80's I found that the WISA 300 "high pressure" model (of which I bought several, directly from the company) was a single membrane pump, not a double one like the original HiBlow. My high pressure WISA mo... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Frogman, I can only second what you wrote! To hear the elimination of contacts or to compare different connectors under controlled listening tests has been my most educating experience in audio. I think the effect of contacts on sound quality are ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi frogman, I share with you the admiration for Paul Desmond. I play the alto myself and he has +/- my ideal sound on the instrument (within the limits of my abilities, and the recorded sound as you point out).Loading MCs: Your line of thoughts re... |