Experience w/ Trans-Fi Auio Terminator Tone Arm?

I am the alleged lone gunman of record above. The Terminator is an excellent arm that easily surpassed a Graham 1.5tc & SME IV on my modded VPI TNT. It takes a bit of tweeking if this is your first experience with a linear arm, as well as email dialog with the manufacturer to dimension a pedestal base for your particular TT. Construction of the air supply requires basic skills with a hand drill. It is well worth the effort and IMO represents one of the best values in analog.

Anybody has compared the Terminator to other tengential arms the likes of ET2.5 or clear audio?

Yes.

The Terminator Pro with the Tomahawk arm wand sounds better than any other air bearing arm I have ever heard including the Rockport III.

I think its the knife edge bearing now accomplished with a set of points.

The soundstage is impressively focused. Timbral accuracy is improved, and there is meat and potato vs sterile accuracy in the music.

YMMV but the TPro with the Tomahawk arm is one of the finest arms ever at any cost.

I'll add my more recent impressions of Terminator. The Tpro version with the Tomahawk flat wand and uninterrupted shielded 5N silver wire harness is quite a break-through in performance. The arm also benefits from a solid brass pedestal. The most challenging aspect of setting up Terminator is the need for careful dressing of the new shielded wire harness. These wires are a bit thicker than the filament-sized unshielded wiring more commonly used with tangential arms. The shielded wires are worthwhile in terms of eliminating hum problems, but to prevent torque effects on the stylus(particularly when the arm is shortened in front or when using a four-conductor loom for balanced operation) the wires need to be carefully separated from each other, and the gantry that supports them must be positioned toward the middle of the LP. In addition, one should recheck zenith after determining optimal VTA. Finally, if the arm is made short it is well worth experimenting with headshell weights for cartridges of low to medium compliance.

All of this may sound complicated but is really no big deal. Once these aspects of setting up a short linear arm are understood, things fall easily into place.

If your looking at Linear track tonearms, you should also consider clearaudio in your evaluation, imo....