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| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi John,I'm using 1 ft long pure silver unshielded, cotton insulated interconnect from junction box to my CAT SL-1 which is supposed to be 47k ohm. The IC is made by a fellow in Texas and is sold only on eBay. I don't know it's capacitance. It... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Frogman,Guess I didn't know the platter height was adjustable. I'm about 1/4 inch + above the plinth. It would have been interesting to try. Not possible now unless I lower the arm board because my platter extends just a hair over the arm bo... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners John,I'll probably end up getting the aluminum base sooner or later. Right now I've been tweaking and upgrading for over two months and have it where I'm very pleased with the result. So for a while I'm going to subscribe to "if it ain't broke d... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hey John. Actually, there are two numbers on Chris' feeler gauge, .020 followed by .508 mm which is the metric equivalent of .020 in. It is very hard to read from the picture but it is the same as the feeler gauge I have. I don't know if you bo... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners The Magic is back! As mentioned, after playing with VTA everything was sounding very nice last night. This morning I followed Chris' diagram and reset the space between the VTA block and manifold housing with the .020 in. feeler gauge, reset VTA... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks John. No I don't have the aluminum base but I have a pretty hard acrylic armboard and the balancing pointed screws are nice and tight. But good thought.Chris, I was mistaken there are not two pieces to the VTA block there is a line across... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners OK, I think I've got VTA set right now. Cymbals are clean, soundstage back and I can hear the breath with vocalists and in Ben Webster's sax. In playing with VTA, however, I seem to have run into another issue. It appears that when I adjust VTA... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Frogman,No, I wasn't yet ready to blame the raised arm board. My dascription of positive response was probably the wrong word. After a very brief listen it just wasn't bad. Probably a psychoacoustic response. You know, when you've done a tw... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners That would be non-thick records. You know, the ones we used to pay a few bucks for. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hi Chris,I've not been dead in the water. The existing setup with mag arm was fine on non-think records. I just didn't have any room to raise VTA any further. While waiting for Bruce's screws and Frogman's extra armboad I tried Frogman's sugges... | |
| When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better? Reviewing comments of those who abandoned vinyl in favor of cd only later to return to vinyl I am struck by how this reflects on the flaw inherent in blind a/b listening tests.Like many others I whole heartedly embraced cd when it was first introd... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Well said John. In an effort to contribute I want to give a shout out to the Medo AC0105 air pump. It is rated at 7.11 PSI so it's only suited for those of us who have not upgraded to the high pressure manifold. It is also rated for a 60 min d... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners So now I have a dilemma. Frogman sending the extra arm board and Bruce sending the longer grub spikes. Ahhh, so many choices, so little time.John, you are so right. Over the last month + I have done about four ot five tweaks to my analog front ... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Frogman,Sent you an introductory pm. Let me know if you get it. Want to be sure I send to correct person.Harry | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Thanks again to everyone. This assistance is better than having a therapist. Frogman, yes! absolutely, extra board will surely do the trick. Perhaps a thin sheet of sorbothane between the two. Assuming I can figure how to pm, I'll send you my ... |