Bruce’s description of the mag and cf, it appears the compliance of my Delos is a better match for the mag. Do you agree?
Harry
here is the ET2 Wand Guideline and some thoughts.
Guideline
Aluminum Wand ----------->Carbon Fiber Wand ----------->Magnesium Wand
Carts
High Compliance ----- ->Medium to Low Compliance ---> Low Compliance
So.
If you only had one wand and play
Higher compliance MM ...........................................Go with Aluminum Wand
Higher compliance MM / med - low compliance MC .......Go with the CF Wand
Only use low compliance MC. ......................Go with the Magnesium Wand
The CF wand is the best all around wand. If you send Bruce an extra aluminum wand, he will wrap it for you and convert it to a Carbon Fiber wand.
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With that as we know this vinyl is all about resonances and vibrations. Anyone that is using a low compliance MC with the aluminum wand has done "mods", "tweaks" in their system chain somewhere to make it work.
If you go through this thread you know that members like Frogman, Richard Krebs Dover at the top of head, plus others, all did extensive mods to their ET2 aluminum wands / and to run lower compliance MC among other carts.
In the picture that BH’ attached - Hi BH’... been a long time - nice setup and nice avatar :^)
He appears to be using an aluminum wand with an MC ? It is hard to tell if it has the CF wrap on it. Are you still using the single leaf spring BH?
When I used an MM on the Magnesium wand it was absolutely strident. Even though the cart sounded fine with the aluminum and CF wands. This tells me the Mag wand really is for Low compliance and maybe a point of no return :^0
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So Logic tells us that if someone made a Low compliance MC work with their Aluminum Wand; should they then introduce the Big Dog Mag wand; they most certainly will be making changes to their system, even though the guidelines say they (Low Compliance MC/ Mag Wand) are the best combo together. Make sense ?
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the single shot wiring deserves a separate discussion.
It is filled with frustrations in fighting physics, but the reward is worth it in the end. The key is not to fight physics. Braiding wires is great for dealing with interference, but not so good in allowing the ET2 to have freeplay. The solution you go with will be determined by your turntable plinth style. You can take this one to the bank.
I found a compromise works well. We can discuss more.
Harry - some Canadian perspective for you on the cost of that Mag armwand.
$575 US dollars is now $775 Cdn. dollars ....... :^(
The differences between the Aluminum and Mag wands for readers.
Click on this link.
https://goo.gl/photos/Rjcvbjfrms23zc1M6Cheers Chris