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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. 
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elinor
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That's a terrific cartridge.

What is the rest of your system? How is your cartridge loaded? Gain?
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soundsrealaudio
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Nice. I had the Tri-planer on a Fickert Blackbird table. Love their cartridges. I was using the Zesto Audio phono stage. Love that as well. 
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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.

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cleeds
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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?
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elinor
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I've had the TriP for 7 years and I have never had a tracking problem with any record at any time.
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