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Mounting cartridge in Eminent Technology ET-2 tonearm

I need to mount a new cartridge in an adjusted ET-2 tonearm.

Please confirm as the tonearm is correctly aligned, all I need to do is to remove the detachable arm tube.  Remove cartridge and install the new cartridge, disconnect and connect four leads/wires to cartridge, reinstall arm tube so cartridge follows the ET-2 cartridge tip template, adjust tracking force, validate arm is parallel after installing cartridge and enjoy music.  Anything else.???

Thanks so much.

dcaudio

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dover
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Then, level the spindle by adjusting the TT’s feet until the arm does not want to move inward or outward when you "bounce" the arm as frogman mentioned.

No this is wrong - if you level the platter, and then alter the TT feet to level the ET tonearm spindle then the platter would now be out of level.

You level the platter, then level the ET using the 2 pillar screws at the base of the ET arm.

 

 

dover
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@ketchup 

I have set up many ET's - on some the spindle can go out of level when VTA is adjusted - in your terms of reference it would then not be parallel to platter.

I check the spindle is still level every time I change VTA to be sure everything is level.

Some bubble levels are quite good - I use the one supplied with my Naim Aro and with the bubble in the centre by eye, it meets or exceeds some quite expensive electronic levels. Using the Naim bubble level and then checking the level with both a Rega,Cartridge Man level and a commercial Starrett yielded no further improvements - the error from the bubble level was below what the electronic levels could measure ( they all read 0.000000 ). That actually surprised me when I checked it. I had expected the electronic levels to pick up some error.

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