Originally Posted by BCRider

Oh, OK, now I see what you mean. The way you wrote your earlier post made it sound to me like there were three folks all working together on ONE wheel. Tensioning and truing by commitee so to speak. I totally misread what you were trying to describe. Doing it the way they are in the video makes a lot more sense now...

And yeah, I'm not surprised that he is using a tension meter. But given that they are putting more emphasis on tuning by ear it would appear that the use of the tension meter is more to confirm that they've gotten the wheel up to tension rather than using it to check each spoke. And given that these guys are doing a LOT of wheels it's likely that they tensioned it up by ear and the use of the meter is just to confirm what their ear already told them. In this way their use of the tension meter is much like our use of the torque meter. When we first start out it's wise to use a torque meter for almost everything. Over time you develop a feel based on experience for the torque needed for each fastener and only need to use the torque meter for special things where it's more critical. I strongly suspect that the use of a tension meter on one or two spokes for these guys is much the same thing. They are just confirming what their ear and experience already told them.