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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. 
rfogel8
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nandric
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Addition, I assume that Raul owns just one test record which

contains those Tchaikovsky's cannon shots ? If an cart/tonearm

combo is not able to track them then such combo's are dismissed.

But to track those cannons at least 70 microns tracking capability

is needed. That is why he recommends high compliance carts

of even the MC ''nature''. Say the Ortofon MC 2000 which can

do this jobe but is, alas, impossible to use because of its output:

0,05mV (grin).

 

cleeds
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nandric

... I bought the Triplanar VII new in the USA ...

Your arm sounds defective. If you purchased it new, it's surely covered under warranty. It should be returned to your dealer for service or replacement.

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Dear cleeds, ''Your arm sounds defective'' is a curious statement.

I am not aware that you listened to my arm. But if you performed

tracking ability test and your Triplanar got more than 50 microns

''pure'' I will need to agree that my Triplanar is defective.

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Elinor, ''any record'' should imply also ''test records''. But test

records with ''tracking capability'' are made in order to show by

which value (aka ''microns'') the arm /cart combo will start to

mistrack. It is very curious that nobody is willing to try the same

experiment which is very simple to repeat. Fear?

cleeds
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nandric03-25-2017 12:13pm

Dear cleeds, ''Your arm sounds defective'' is a curious statement. I am not aware that you listened to my arm. But if you performed tracking ability test and your Triplanar got more than 50 microns ''pure'' I will need to agree that my Triplanar is defective.

What you've described sounds like your arm is defective, although it could also be a setup problem. I don't know why you think that's "curious." Why you should think that the way my pickup arm performs has any relationship to whether your arm is defective or not is quite curious, however.

I don't own a Triplanar, btw. But you should be getting better performance from your arm than what you relate here. It's apparently under warranty - why not take advantage of that??
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