Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade"

Love my TP VII UII. It tracks fine with each of my handful of carts: Kiseki Purpleheart, Koetsu Urushi Vermillion, Transfiguration Axia S, Charisma MC2. I do occasionally have a faint but audible hum issue, especially with the Kiseki mounted. It takes some fiddling with the leads and trying different grounding arrangements to minimize this but it never totally goes away.  Has anyone dealt with this?  I wonder if there is an upgrade that can solve it. 

Got the "Schalplatte2" and finally completed the Turntable for the Triplanar U12, latest model (1-2017).  It tracks 100 u with no issues, plays tracks 5 and 6 on side B perfectly - so clearly the OP must have some setup issue with his TriPlanar or very unlikely its defective.  The cartridge mounted on the Triplanar U12 is a Lyra Etna.

Heres a picture of the turntable / arm used for this simple test. It is the last picture

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6431

Good Listening

Peter

This thread unfortunately got way off track.  Looking through all the posts, I only saw one comment about the upgraded wiring vs. the stock Discovery wiring.  Does anyone else have any reactions to the upgrades for the Triplanar, especially the wiring change?

Go for the SE wire, you wont regret the upgrade.

Have made a improvement to this otherwise excellent tonearm.  I found the VTA/SRA adjustment "tower" did not hold the arm base firmly enough with its single knurled screw attachment especially if one is more than half way up on this adjustment.  If your constantly fiddling with VTA/SRA its probably not a benefit, but I don't, so I designed a add on tri-point stabilizing ring for this, see virtual systems page for how it works. Last picture. This adds tremendous stability to the tonearms mounting rigidity.

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/6431

We can make more should anyone have an interest. Since it a specialized item and probably only to be made in a very small quantity it will not be inexpensive though. 


Good Listning,

Peter