Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade"


Contemplating  sending my Tri-Planar Vll back to Tri Mai for his "SE Upgrade". Essentially, same carbon fiber wand and internal silver wire and leads used in his 12" U12 arm. Anybody done the dirty deed?  If so, better, worse or pretty much the same. 

I've only seen one post on the subject and that person seemed more than happy.

Thanks to anyone who responds with personal experience.  No conjecture please. 
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Speaking about Triplanar weakness. My Triplanar VII ''refused'' to

track anything above 50 microns on my test record. Even carts which

easilly got 70 microns right (aka ''pure'') on my FR-64s were not

able to track more than 50 microns with the Triplanar. I know that

''induction'' from one experiment does not count as proof but

anybody can repeat the same  experiment and see for himself.

nandric

Speaking about Triplanar weakness. My Triplanar VII ''refused'' to track anything above 50 microns on my test record ...

That's odd - the arm sounds defective. Did you buy it used?


I've had the TriP for 7 years and I have never had a tracking problem with any record at any time.
Great arm, great company, TriPlaner, great cartridge, I want to sell you some great speakers......seriously. Wilson Benesch

Dear cleeds, I bought the Triplanar VII new in the USA and paid

500 euro import duty. As I understand 50 microns (horizontal and

vertical) should be sufficient for a ''normal record''. BTW I own

some MC's with pretty low compliance which are also not able

to track more than 50 micron on tracking ability test records.

But I was surprised that my FR-64 which is at least twice as heavy

can track 70-80 microns . However nobody made the same

experiment in order to check my finding but persist in the well

known ''denial strategy''. I stated that my sample was not able

to track more than 50 micron with any of my MC carts and asked

others to try the same experiment . Anybody who owns test

records with tracking capabilty test can do this in 5 minutes time.

If the results are different  than my then I will know that my

sample is possible defective.