Need advice from Triplanar mk.7 owners

Dan_ed,

Thanks for reply. What puzzles me that on fotos I found in the net that base looks exactly vertically aligned. No idea whatsofar.....

Hi, Mine is like Dan_ed's. Slight tilted outward.

The arm looks normal to me, though the user obviously hasn't centered the azimuth adjustment.

The first photo (when maximized on screen) clearly shows that the pin is adjusted to a position that's WAY anti-clockwise from vertical.

The threads on the adjusting screw are skewed in the same direction. It would be odd if they were otherwise. If the adjustment were changed to make the pin more nearly vertical, the threads would be more even (necessarily).

If this is really where the OP's setup needs to be for proper azimuth, which I doubt, the problem is with the cartridge, not the tonearm.

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The antiskate tracks on the HiFi News LP are not tests you're trying to pass. They're SUPPOSED to create R channel distortion. Adjusting your rig to eliminate that distortion (if you could) would result in FAR too much AS and VTF.

The best use for that LP is as a Frisbee, preferably one that you throw once and never find again. Learn to adjust your rig by listening to the music you play, not with poorly designed test records that contain amplitudes your rig will rarely if ever experience with real music.

Salavat,There is an black plastic cap on the block that connects the(front) armtube with the back-side tube. Underneath this cap there must be some kind of srew that
'allows' the 'centering' of the block on the backside tube.
Sorry for my 'terminology' but this is my assumtion. I had
a similar problem with my 'model VI' but was reluctant to
'correct' this myself. But my Triplanar (then)had an,say,very small 'deviation' from vertical.No idea if this
causes any functional problems but the most of ua,I assume,
regard this arm as a 'work of art' so I can undestand your even,say,'aesthetic worry'. If so you should,I think,return
the arm for 'correction'. I.e. one should be fully satisfied with this tonearm.
Regards,

Doug, it looks to me as if the entire pinch clamp is rotated on the arm stub toward the arm rest. The second picture shows this pretty well. If this is the case the pin could look to be closer to one stop or the other whether the AZ is perpendicular or not. It is hard to tell since the cart end is out of focus. Anyway, it does appear that there is enough movement to get AZ right.