Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners

Hi Steve, welcome back. where have you been ?
We all go through stuff ….. this hobby and forum is one way that helps me to deal with it.
Look forward to hearing about your system updates.

In follow up with Frogmans comments on the 420str, I am totally enjoying the Acutex 420str the last few weeks.

Could this be Linear arm heaven for cheap ?

Dgarretson (Dave) if you see this post please let us know how it sounds on your Terminator Linear arm. I understand that the inventor of the arm purchased multiple samples from Nandric (Nikola) after hearing it the first time.

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1339746713&openflup&5&4#5

Pivot arm owners reading this - beware – this cartridge which is a little piece of nothing and costs as much as a good lunch, will give you mind and back spasms if properly set up - be assured. Most with no patience will give up on it and say it is too harsh - as I read on the MM thread.

A belated Happy Canada Day and hope my US friends here have a great 4th of July.

Cheers Chris

Steve - I must have posted just after your last post. I think an LP list for reference is an excellent idea.

Thanks Chris,

I haven't yet caught up on everything but, what I'm sensing is awesome sonics from very economical carts. I will get caught up on this. I'm glad that Dgarretson has posted, his set-up is pretty amazing! (I wonder where he has his machining done?)

I know that IMO, there must be a few lps that most of us own, (or should own) that will be easy to obtain. I'm certainly up for a new record if I don't currently own it.

I haven't yet taken the time to re-post my virtual system but I've had some interesting findings.

This should be interesting to you all, I hope it doesn't seem all about me, even though it really is.

My tt is a wall mount. Sadly, it's not on a load bearing wall. I've done my best to compensate, I have a MANA (custom) wall mount as the basis for the tt, (also a separate one for the outboard motor, thread drive), I've made a custom motor enclosure that, after hearing the positive benefits, I've already decided to construct another. I'm using a combo of Symposium platforms and BDR shelves. I use a ET 2.5, currently running 17psi @ the arm, a Dyna 17D3. (I think this cart weighs around 5 grams).

What I'm getting at is this, I've had an issue where if the cartridge is sitting in the groove, tt not spinning volume up!, I'd get a low frequency rumble. This could be several things, and I've tried several things.

I recently purchased a double leaf spring I-beam, re-read the manual and my (2) counterweights are now at the end of the I-beam. To my surprise, performing the cart in the groove test now results in NO rumble. Hallelulia! Now I'm going to play Ryan Bingham's excellent "Hallelulia"



Recently I purchased a double leaf spring I-beam

****I recently purchased a double leaf spring I-beam, re-read the manual and my (2) counterweights are now at the end of the I-beam. To my surprise, performing the cart in the groove test now results in NO rumble. Hallelulia! **** -Slaw

Hah!