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
I really hope that you can refute my finding ... then I can sell my Triplanar  without any guilt

surely you want your findings to be confirmed? Otherwise it is clear your particular Triplanar is defective and hence unsaleable?

FWIW I was a long time Triplanar owner and never found it to be a great tracker, it also lost control on complex passages with blown out bass and edgy sound. My current Durand unipivot was a major step up. In other words I suspect that Nandrics findings will be confirmed
@nandric, it would appear that you prefer simple statement of facts, thus eliminating any confusion as to the meaning or intent. Please allow me to re-post my observations.

To my ears, my Tri-Planar does not mistrack when playing music albums

I don’t care if my Tri-Planar can track 50 microns on a test record

I have no interest in the Higgs particle

I do not like looking up Latin phrases when simple English will suffice

I am interested in learning more about Tri-Planar SE Upgrade


atmasphere, ''it also easily tracks the church Windows LP which

has groove modulation well in excess of 60 microns.'' Interesting

finding for someone who does not own a single test record and

also does not believe in test records.

Folkfreak, before sending my  sample for repair I would like to

know if my Triplanar is defective. But if other samples also skep

the groove by 60 microns why should I?

Anyway our member  pbnaudio owns the same test record so

no feelings, imagination, defence of the beloved one, excuses,

assumptions ,etc.,etc., will be needed any more regarding the

tracking ability of the Triplanar.  Or so I hope. 


Thanks mem2112 for your useful comments. I've talked to a few other people who have the TP/Universe combo, all have reported great results.

nandric, sorry if I was a bit sarcastic but I still fail to understand your obsession with test records and being able to track 50 microns. 

If you suspect you have a problem, just send it back to Tri Mai and have him check it out. For the few bucks shipping, you'll have peace of mind and if you're still unhappy, you can sell it with a clear conscience. 

The story about the ''strawman''. The German have this curious

saying: ''there is nothing more simple than to refute a philosopher;

one only need to read some other''. The case is that  philosopher

produce a strawman from their opponents and then beat him to

death.

The ''things'' which can be true or false are statements (propositions,

sentences, etc). But even atmasphere who give me the lessons

about quantifiers stated : ''I don't believe you''. He deed not quote

any of my statements in particular so, obviously , I am a person

who has the property of being always wrong. This would include all

statements which I ever made.

The other participants in this thread also forget to quote any of

my statement but assumed that my Triplanar is defective ?

Why? I assume because my sample can't track anything above

50 microns. However I wrote that 50 micron is sufficient for ''normal

records'' but that I was surprised that my sample was not able to

track more than 50 microns. This however does not imply that

my Triplanar is defective. If other samples also skip out the groove

by 60 microns this should mean that Triplanar has this  ''property''

in general. There are low complience carts which can't track more

than 50 microns by their design but  nobody would  qualify them

as defective. No tonarm whatever can get 60 microns out of

such a cart. My FR-64 was not able to track 90 microns by any

cart even the Windefeld which claim 100 microns.

So what other deed is ascribing  to me things which I never stated

which is the same as producing a strawman.