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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Oh, it just dawn on me, could the "less smooth" of the Rockport bearing cause by the flex of tiny airhost? If it is, then the airhost actually provide considerable "damping"! | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Rugyboogie, Can the moving assembly on the Airline be taken out easily? If it can, and it is not too much trouble, I would really appreciate if you could weight it to confirm whether it is really only around 100g.Hi Ct,Yes, I still don't unders... | |
| Question on FR 66s Since we are talking about alignments, I would appreciate to get some answers from knowledgeable members here.As I understand, there are 3 popular alignment curves, i.e. Baerwald, Löfgren, and Stevenson, and these curves aimed to minimize tracking... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I have measured the weight of the Rockport 6000 in the weekend, and to my surprise, the whole moving assembly weighted in at 90g (including the A90 at 8g, and a spacer at 2.5g). I am using the lightest counterweight out of the 4, and the heaviest ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Richard,Yes, the 6000, and all other Rockport arms, has damping trough. The “paddle” is fixed, so unlike the Walker, you have to adjust the amount of damping oil you put in!However, I and a couple of my friends who had the 6000, prefer it witho... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Ct,You have sharp eyes, yes the owner of that Sirius III was complaining on Audiogon that the arm couldn’t track more than 3 cuts into the LP. There are actually 2 black hosts in that photo, one for the air, and one for the signal wire. I believe ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The 6000's relatively low vertical effective mass put its resonant frequency above the ideal 8-12Hz region with moving-coil cartridges of average weight and typically low compliance, causing the bass to begin rolling off prematurely. Andy Payor s... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Andy Payor and Bruce Thigpen both disagree with adding mass. Hi Dover,Regarding the passage you quoted Andy Payor from Michael Fremer’s review on the Rockport 6000, while I have never read that review, but reading MF’s later reviews on the Rockpo... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Rauls,Thanks for your comment! Would certainly make an effort to try out your suggestion to see if it makes any difference to me.Just to recap my phono progress since around the year 2000, when I got back into vinyl. I started with the Herron, ... | |
| Is soundstage just a distortion? Hi Csontos,Thanks for the comment!So, you are saying that soundstage height is not imbedded in the original recording, but only an artifact of room geometry and speaker placement?The interesting thing is that, if these are indeed artifacts, they a... | |
| Is soundstage just a distortion? Hi All,I have this related question and hope some knowledgeable members, especially Atmasphere, who do his own recordings, can share their views!It is relatively easy to understand why we can create soundstage width in our stereo system, as there ... | |
| Question on FR 66s you don't change when you don't learn: learning is a proccess that can gives you a new " vision/status I can see that you don't move from that old tube technology even in the worst place to have: phono stage I dont know about the others, but I ... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Raul,Yes, I agreed that there can be no discussion if one insists that he is always right, and any other who don't agree with him, wrong! BTW, as you have mentioned, you also liked the FR66/64 once in the past! So, if we had followed your advic... | |
| Question on FR 66s So we had to reject those measurements other than the traditional ones that serve almost for nothing ___________________________________________________________Hi Raul,Thanks for the detailed description of you experience! However, it seems, in t... | |
| Question on FR 66s Hi Raul,First, I have to admit that I have a FR64S and I do like it very much. If that means I like high distortion, so be it! But that is not the main point of my post!You have mentioned all this distortion caused by the design of the FR, so I am... |