Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade"

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.

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).

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

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.

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?