Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough

I don't think that Deacon character uses anything in the trough. He'll probably pipe up with more info.

We crackpots are everywhere!

To quote another thread where I got myself in hot water, we find the TriPlanar's silicone damping "intolerable". That is with a Shelter 901 and various ZYX's.

To our ears it kills HF extension and dampens everything rather artificially. I believe that's the majority view among TriPlanar owners, but YMMV of course. If it's the kind of thing you like, you'd like it.

I don't know what viscosity silicone Tri Mai recommends. You could always buy a tube from him. It's shown on his website.

I have an ET 2.5 and I don't use silicone in my damping trough anymore. I was told to use Mobil Synthetic oil 5w-30w viscosity and it works great,actually better than silicone and a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to find.