Wheaton Tri-Planar VII 10 inch

About the Wheaton Tri-Planar VII 10 inch

The Wheaton Tri-Planar Mk VII 10 inch tonearm is a highly regarded precision tonearm featuring a unique dual-pivot gimbal bearing design that allows maximum adjustability and watch-like precision in three planes: azimuth, vertical tracking angle (VTA), and vertical bearing at record height. It offers unrivaled tracking, transparency, and resolution, producing a musical soundstage described as powerful, dynamic, solid yet expressive, delicate, and tactile. The arm is renowned for its sonic transparency, often described as 'invisible' due to the lack of coloration. It includes features such as a damped headshell, annealed-aluminum coaxial damped armtube, clamping yoke design for firm coupling with azimuth rotation, silicone-fluid trough damping, hand-crafted hardened and polished needle cone bearings, progressive anti-skating, and a sophisticated system of decoupled counterweights allowing proper stylus force without altering effective mass. Installation is simplified with an easy 3-screw method and no large VTA hole. The arm is