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everything sounds awesome! imaging is dead center with wide deep sound stage. Scary Imaging and depth!
I never knew I could get my table, arm, cart to sound this good all together. It always sound good but after the adjustments today and I found out the arm was NOT level like I thought/did before during the initial setup.
I'm just having a great time drinking wine and listen to tunes on a new table again!
Glad I took the time to check it out again!
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Color me jealous - I have always lusted after an ET-2 mounted on either a Sota Star or a VPI rig.
Have come close in the past. Killed me when I could have grabbed an Ebony Sota Star with ET-2 in nearly unused shape for all of $850. Wowza was that a beautiful turntable, but I simply didn't have the cash on hand. :(
yeah, you can't pass deals up like that when they come around. I paid $600 for the arm, wisa pump, VTA Dial and lever, extra wand and a VPI tonearm board it came mounted on. all were in great shape!
Many moons ago, myself and two friends had ET II's. We always used a small sheet of glass placed on the platter to level the arm.....of course first making sure the turntable and platter were completely level.
I will have to try that soon.
Thank you for the info!
I think glass would be better than vinyl because the stylus will scratch a tiny groove in vinyl but I doubt it will scratch glass. I know that diamond can scratch glass, but probably not at a 2-gram stylus force setting.Best regards,
John Elison
Edits: 08/27/14
We found that glass was a more honest barometer. Far less friction than blank vinyl in our experiments. If that arm wand didn't move on glass, you were level.
The "Skate Plate" came in handy when I was setting up one many years ago.
Opus 33 1/3
I have been using the ET arm since it was introduced.
At this point there are no original parts due to Mr. Thigpen's exemplary update policies.
I found the greatest improvement to come from removing the manifold from the tower structure and clamping the manifold to the plinth. Yes you do lose the shaky VTA adjustment (which is for the best) and it does require you to make a platform (ebony block in my case) and come up with a way to hold all of this down. But the arm becomes something very different after this.
Another thing I found is to glue a length of balsa to the counterweight mount/stick and instead of using a big blob of lead swinging away from the back of the, what do you call that thing anyway?, but to load the whole thing with strips of lead sheet (wrapped around the balsa), starting from the "beginning" of the thing and continuing to add strips along the length until you get to the mass needed for your cartridge to produce good bass and then use a small counterweight to make fine adjustments for tracking force.
Anti-skate cannot be disregarded with the ET and I have found that tilting the front of the plinth at various amounts you will find the best sounding setting. Level, for me, has never been the best sounding position.
It certainly was on the signature arm on my Simply Physics Dark Star TT back in the 1980s.
Opus 33 1/3
I can't find mine at the moment so I just used a small level and it worked great. Set the weight so the arm floats on its own while I made the adjustments.
I do have to find that blank LP for this in the future. Just have to make sure the tonearm cable doesn't pull on it also.
I have a box of them. If you want one I can send you one for the cost of postage.
I'd love one and am more than willing to pay for the privelage.
Especially as I'm now getting back into vinyl with a new Pro-Ject table!
Just send me a message with details.
Thanks...
-B-
I could really use one if you can spare it. Contact me via AA PM / email. Thanks.
I would definitely want one. Thank You for the offer, I really appreciate it. Please send me an email and I will get that out to you. :)
Thank You again!
nt
Dman
Analog Junkie
They are also good for setting anti skate on a regular arm
Alan
IMHO...no groove=less friction (pulling) so you'd set the
A.S. too low, right?.
It depends on the shape of the tip. According to Frank Schröder and Peter Ledermann, no groove = slightly more friction. In any case, the friction of the stylus against a grooveless vinyl surface will probably be slightly different than the friction of a stylus in a groove. On the other hand, for all practical purposes I think the method described by Frank Schröder and Peter Ledermann is probably as good as any for setting antiskating.
Peter Ledermann sent very detailed instructions of how to do it, as well as other details to look for when (re)mounting any work (or product) of his.
Dman
Analog Junkie
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