Slaw (Steve)
Regarding your VTA question - I find it rather odd from a previous owner/user of this tonearm ...how many years ? ... to be asking this question. This ET2 patented VTA feature is in fact what distinguishes it from all other tonearms including other air bearings. Bruce understood that records come with varied included cut angles, so he designed a tonearm to easily deal with them.
Now the smart designer in whatever field, would never discuss secrets about how a patented design works .......in an Owners manual.
To use this VTA feature properly, and to see how it executes, is to understand it. Period. And we have discussed it in this thread previously.
Your question therefore indicates to me that either your setup was off, you just never understood it, or maybe a combination.
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As some of the ET2 owners here are Johnathan Carr fans I will let him re-affirm things.
This is for SLAW and it is also for PEGASUS
Jcarr and the ET2 VTA
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for those not wanting to click on the link.
Regarding your VTA question - I find it rather odd from a previous owner/user of this tonearm ...how many years ? ... to be asking this question. This ET2 patented VTA feature is in fact what distinguishes it from all other tonearms including other air bearings. Bruce understood that records come with varied included cut angles, so he designed a tonearm to easily deal with them.
Now the smart designer in whatever field, would never discuss secrets about how a patented design works .......in an Owners manual.
To use this VTA feature properly, and to see how it executes, is to understand it. Period. And we have discussed it in this thread previously.
Your question therefore indicates to me that either your setup was off, you just never understood it, or maybe a combination.
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As some of the ET2 owners here are Johnathan Carr fans I will let him re-affirm things.
This is for SLAW and it is also for PEGASUS
Jcarr and the ET2 VTA
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for those not wanting to click on the link.
Jonathan Carr
However, as I recently wrote in Stereophile, the construction of every tonearm that I am aware of (with the sole exception of the Eminent Technology linear trackers) guarantees that altering SRA will simultaneously cause the effective length to change, along with the tracking force.
To make sure that any SRA-induced audible changes are truly attributable to SRA rather than sundry alignment shifts that came along for the ride, you must recheck the overhang and tracking force and "put them back" to what they were prior to the VTA change.
At the end of the day, you may ponder about the real value of "VTA on-the-fly" mechanisms (grin).
kind regards, jonathan