Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable?

@mijostyn 

meh

Another vote in favor of the ET2 and I agree with the positive comments made so far.  Fantastic arm. I’ve owned Alphason MCS, Syrinx PU3, Grado, Premier MMT, SME V and a couple others and the ET2 (which I still use) is sonically superior to all of them; and not by a little. It lets my cartridges produce a stunning soundstage with none of the truncation in the corners that all others suffer from. Tonally, it is outstanding. Its bass performance, especially with the new(ish) long I-beam, is quick and natural; not lean like the Syrinx’s, nor overblown like the SME’s. I don’t know what mijo’s beef is with the ET2, but I too don’t think he knows what he is talking about. Always be skeptical of comments that deal only with supposed technical problems with a design and nary a word about the actual sound. Good luck.

As Mijo well knows there is a valid school of thought that supports benefits associated with tonearms having a high effective mass in the horizontal plane Because extreme low bass frequencies are encoded in horizontal motion of the stylus and because they are high in energy content you want the pivot to be stable at those frequencies. Else the tail can wag the dog. (The stylus can move the pivot from side to side.)

@lewm

He is completely ignorant

The horizontal effective mass is almost twice that of the vertical mass. This puts the related resonance frequencies is disparate locations. The end result is messed up bass one way or the other creating not just creating problems with the quality of the bass (most people are not sensitive to this) but also the ability of the cartridge to track correctly.

The differential mass in the horizontal and vertical planes results in 2 much smaller resonant frequency peaks ( instead of one large one ). This reduces the amplitude of resultant resonances further up the audio band by several db, resulting in better tracking and more linear bass response.

The test results are all documented on the Eminent Technology website, which it would appear mijo cannot be bothered to read.

@frogman

I don’t think he has a beef, he simply does not understand how the ET2 works and is not interested in finding out. Of course there may be other reasons for continually making outlandish unsubstantiated claims, but I’m not a mind reader, I can only surmise.

@lewm , That is wishful thinking Lew. The suspension has a certain compliance that is is essence omnidirectional. If anything vertical compliance is lower than horizontal which makes this problem worse! There is a reason that no tonearm of this type has gained universal acceptance, they perform poorly and this is easy to demonstrate The problem is that t most people, on most systems, they sound OK and of course if "I" use it it must be the best and it looks cool. The same is true of 12 inch tonearms. Only academically challenged people buy into this type of thing and you are not but I get it, you like to argue with me which is fine. It keeps me sharp and I learn. You can not argue with the physics. People almost universally prefer the Kuzma 4 Point 11 over the Airline.  

@vinylzone , meh? That lady on the cell phone is about to crash into you. I suggest you close your eyes.