frogman
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| Some tables have soul and some not Inna, I must say (in the spirit of debate) that was one of the most ridiculous posts I have ever read on this forum; and, with all due respect, just plain wrong. I respect your opinion to consider yourself a machine of sorts; but please speak for ... | |
| Some tables have soul and some not A turntable cannot have soul (soul, not A soul); it is a machine. Music has soul. Some turntables reproduce more of the soul of a musical performance than other turntables because they are better machines; they let more of the rhythmic nuance in a... | |
| guitar solos where less is more No mention of Bill Frisell? A great artist. Cliche-free playing, few notes, and every note counts. Improvises in the traditional way of always returning to the melody while stretching the harmonic boundaries. Miles Davis-like use of space, and a v... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Slaw, glad the changes yielded good results. You said: "With regards to the damping trough... if the best results come from the paddle lightly touching the fluid, would there be any sonic difference in trying different weights of fluid or is that ... | |
| What constitutes a "high output" moving coil cart? Nsgarch is exactly correct, unless you will be considering the multi-thousand $ MC's, there are many fine MM's that are worth considering. Some would argue that EVEN IF you will be considering top tier MC's, you should consider a MM. Read this and... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thekong, congratulations! As should be clear so far, we feel this is a terrific arm. And if you enjoy tinkering...well, you'll be in heaven. I think the ET's reputation for requiring a lot of maintenance is exaggerated and unjustified, as I have f... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Well said! | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners For what it's worth, I have used this arm for about twenty two years, and have used more cartridges (of all persuasions) than I can remember. While the effect of lower compliance at the I-beam spring has been most noticeable with low compliance/hi... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners BTW, the key to using the damping trough is to allow the paddle to just barely touch the fluid. Otherwise the sound gets too slow.Ct, can you be more specific as to what you mean by "damping". It's possible this is a semantics issue, whereby your ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners ****Dampened it****Interesting! Not the effect that the double spring has, making the sound much tighter with better detail, but less warmth. Perhaps it's the particular material you used. When you did this, did you notice LESS horizontal movement... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Slaw, sorry I missed that. :-) | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners ****Throwing weight at the I-beam near the spindle pivot does not increase the arms rigidity.****Exactly.BTW, there is a (not particularly elegant) way to experiment with lowering the I-beam compliance without use of the double spring. You can wed... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Ct, as I quoted before, moving the weight further out on the I-beam improved (in my set-up) the bass performance. By "improved" I mean better control, and weight; two things that don't always go hand in hand. I will say that the best results where... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners From the ET2 manual:*****It is desirable in most cases (low to medium compliance cartridges 5x10 dynes/cm-10x20 dynes/cm) to use the minimum number of counterweights, far out on the counterweight stem. This decreases the horizontal inertia of the ... | |
| VPI TNT Bearing question That bearing, and its companion MKV platter is what I have on my TNT. According to Mike at VPI: "they are as good as anything we have ever made; including the Super Platter". |