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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Bear in mind that you are not comparing a Dynavector 17D to an Acutex 420.You are comparing a "Dynavector 17D plus Bob's Cinemag 3440 MC transformer" to an Acutex 420. | |
| The Blue Angel Mantis cartridge If you had purchased an Air Tight PC1 before the garage door opened you would have paid less than $4000. Now the garage door is open the price is $6800.The Mantis difference between $5000 and $2000 direct is pretty much the distributor and retail ... | |
| VPI Classic Platter- Naked or better with a mat? Stringreen - you misread my post, I dont ascribe to the complementary colorations school of audio engineering. | |
| VPI Classic Platter- Naked or better with a mat? Myles, If the best of 2 options depends on the rest of the system, then that suggests both options have strengths and weaknesses. Ergo both have weaknesses. This conclusion seems to me to suggest "complementary colorations" is how you assemble a s... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? At first I thought someone had been let out of the asylum, then I thought this post was hilarious, now it's become tiresome...now where are those pills | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Ketchup - I dont just slap arms on decks, I ran an Oracle/Zeta/Koetsu Black for a couple of years prior to the SOTA ET2. In my experience you can optimise high frequency extension on an Oracle by setting the height such that the suspension is quit... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Ct0517 - I would not run an ET downhill, but I get the overhang argument.NOW HERE IS ANOTHER POSER to ponder :With a pivoted arm we have an overhang. The pivot arm/stylus tip moves in an arc, which means that for every 1.8 seconds ( 1 rotation ) t... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Davide - I dont see your point with 2 vs 3 body physics. "Radial" arms have split vertical and horizontal bearings and remain 3 body in your hypothesis unless you are using a unipivot. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Frogman - yes. Ed Thigpen's response at the time was "he's probably right".Dgarretson, I use to check the level on my ET2 by balancing it to 0 with an additional counterweight and checking that when nudged the arm would travel freely and the same ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Now here is a poser for all you guys -An engineer/mathematician friend of mine suggested many years ago that if you run a tangential tracking tonearm and set the stylus exactly on the tangent, then the stylus has no reference as it has no lateral ... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Lewm et al, theET2 definitely goes out of level in my experience on Oracles ( the worst ), Linn's etc. SOTA at least has the advantage that it is hung from the springs and is inherently more stable like the SME decks. Given the mass and the additi... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? If it aint got no tubes, it aint got no swing. I'm with Atmasphere on this one, there are other issues to consider with most gear, both tube and solid state, speed and timing, no matter what the price.May/June 2012 TAS - Marantz 7C - "blessed with... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. I had Vacuum Sota/ET2 for a few years before my Final Audio.No problems on levelling and maintaining level across the record.No mistracking whatsoever, particularly compared with pivoted arms on demanding tracks.I did have a couple of records that... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm, I prefer people to describe what they hear, and ascribe characteristics, even if others disagree. To me if you read someones review in the context of their system, or other comments, then that is more useful than "like" or "prefer".So let ri... |