Tri-planar vs Graham

The cartridge is actually a ZYX Airy3 Gold...

Your Zyx cartridge is a very good match with the Triplanar.

Marco,

As Syntax says, a ZYX cartridge is an excellent match with a Triplanar, PROVIDED the cartridge includes ZYX's optional silver headshell weight. If it doesn't, bass response and macro-dynamics will suffer, because a bare 5g ZYX cartridge is lighter than optimal for a tonearm with an effective mass of only 11g.

The Phantom's effective mass is similar to the TriPlanar's, so the same caveat would apply.

You could address this by adding weight to the headshell. ZYX offers one and so do others, though this may have unknown effects on resonance behavior.

I run the ZYX (Universe) without a cartridge weight on the Triplanar, and the cartridge tracks beautifully- getting image stability that I had previously associated only with reel to reel tape. If you've not heard that, let's put it this way- most arm cartridge setups tend to have a slight amount of waver in the image- tape has that locked in. You might have to hear it to know what I am talking about :)

The Phantom appears to be one of the very few arms that operates in the same league as the Triplanar- we are talking about the best of the best here. Either way one will do well :)