I'm also a (happy) TTT-C/Simplicity owner. I respect Mr Fremer's right and in fact obligation to honestly publish his experience and opinion, however, one would have thought that in the circumstances there was also a professional obligation upon him to communicate with either the manufacturer or distributor regarding the product fault (relating to the bearing/tracking issues) prior to publishing. There are already several reviews of the Simplicity, none of which identified such issues, therefore it was highly probable the issue was not a consequence of the design or normal production. As it eventuates the fault was caused by someone (innocently) interfering with the headshell bearings after the arm arrived in the US. It's also unfortunate that Stereophile, in the Feb issue, omitted to include this as part of Mr Huber's reply in their 'Manufacturers Comment' section. I would guess the whole of Huber's reply was too large to publish but surely there could have been some communication to enable preparation of a more brief but complete response. A Stereophile reader is left with the belief that the Simplicity has an inherent design/manufacture fault which it clearly does not. This is neither a fair or reasonable situation.
I agree with Mr Fremer in that there is room for improvement with the manual (cart installation instructions), though I would say when I was installing my cart it was obvious that if I followed those instructions precisely, as Fremer obviously did, catastrophe would almost certainly follow. I instead removed the headshell/cart from the alignment 'Sight Unit' device to tighten the screws then re-inserted and checked. The alignment markings on the Sight Unit could also be a little thinner, their width does obscure the cantilever, but a little time/care and initiative did easily solve this problem, at least for me.