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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future?

Post Subject: EMTPosted by N-set on: 7/22/2010

I'm a physicist actually :-) I'm denying modern physics every day. Not to deny the string theory one must be a complete idiot: 1+2+3+4+....=-1/12!!!
I've made a stupid mistake and decomposed my EMT for cleaning and now, in big pains
and with a help of some German EMT angel, I'm slowly bringing it back to the shape. The good point
about all that thoroughly anal process is that I "learn" the machine. I must say I still have
no experience with the sound as I decomposed the deck before I started listening...
But just learning the mechanics of the deck, I'd not take your criticism Stich too seriously.
Have you had some more-than-momentary experience with 930 or 927?
There are some obvious limitations (anal joke "3 phase"power supply of the motor with drifting caps),
but there are some things very-very well thought over,
like the long shaft Romy mentioned.
I don't know if 927 or my neighbour has longer than me, I'm fine with what I have.
And reliability under harsh conditions I'd rather take as a good indication.
As for the carts, they do seem to last some years, then EMT offers a rebuilt (and vdH offers a rettip if you wish)
and you can use it again and again. The weak point is the rubber suspension which hardens.
TSD15 is I think has been around for 40 or so years in continous production.
VTA, VTF....
All that adjustments are usually incorporated to make the arm sort of universal, which at the end is impossible.
EMT is a complete system, so they've optimised the geometry for their own stuff.

I'm not a fan of any topology. Like Paul says, the topology is just a mean not an end in itself.
EMT930 was probably the best I could afford with my budget at the moment so I decided to try.
If I hate it, will sell it to some stupid collector for $$$$$. You are continously mentioning introduction of DD's instead of
idlers by broadcasters. Why? As I've try to point out the reason for that could have been
not because of limitations of idlers but because of more convenienet operation (ultra fast start, no need to
change idlers, search options, etc).

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