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Eminent technology et2 on Linn Lp12

Hello all

I am considering the possibility of this combination. I already own the Linn. Its a mid/late 70's model. A friend has the arm. I have a Denon 103 cartrige to put on the arm. 

What are your thoughts on this combo.

I currently use a Thorens td160 with SME 3009 improved and Denon103 cartrige that I like. AN M3 Line pre with tube and SS power. Tannoy MG 12 speakers. 

Also. I am going to make a new arm board. Is there a preferred material or should I stick with the MDF. 

Thanks for your thoughts. 


pkvintage

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Yup @slaw, in fact I also picked up an Aries 1, which incorporates a lot of improvements over the HW-19. Separate heavy motor pod, no suspension (an ideal candidate for the Townshend Pods---in the works), 2" thick MDF chassis with a layer of steel bonded to its bottom, much better platter, no surrounding base and dustcover to resonate. I’m thinking of setting up the 19 for mono LP’s, many of which have mediocre sonics anyway (1960’s Kinks, Yardbirds, Beach Boys, 1950's Blues and Rockabilly, etc.). The Aries I got specifically for the Terminator arm, and my Townshend Rock Elite has an arm perfect for it, the Zeta.
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Yeah @slaw, the HW-19's subchassis really needs to be removed from the surrounding base. I'm getting some Townshend Seismic Pods to put under the subchassis of my Mk.3 (with Aries 1/TNT-4 platter and bearing), the stock spring suspension removed. The base and its attached dust cover will then merely surround the subchassis, the Pods theoretically completely isolating the two from each other.
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The Naim Aro arm (unfortunately out-of-production) is a favorite with Linn Sondek owners.
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Brooks Berdan may have mounted more ET arms on turntables than anyone else in the world. His original choice for the arm was the Oracle Delphi, for which he created a mod eventually incorporated into the table by Oracle itself (a round block of stainless steel added onto the bottom of the floating subchassis at a specific location, to make its’ mass perfectly distributed and therefore more dynamically balanced. Brooks had training in and knowledge of the design of race car suspensions).

He added the VPI HW-19 when that table was introduced, and found its stiffer-suspension (and to a lesser degree its higher-mass floating subchassis) to provide a more stable platform for the unusual moving mass of the ET. The reason for that is that the center of the arms mass changes location as the arm moves across the LP more than does that of most non-linear arms (the exception being very high mass arms of that sort); a table with a softer suspension can have it’s floating subchassis become slightly out-of-level, while a stiffer suspension will be less effected by the changing location of the arms mass.

Of course, a table with no "normal" suspension (metal springs, air---the Townshend Seismic Sink, Sorbothane or Navcom) will be completely unaffected by the moving mass of the ET. Brooks mounted the ET on a lot of VPI TNT’s.

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